• Resolved dkissell

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    I am trying to install word press on a server I share with 2 websites, I created a unique database inserted al of the correct information to the wp-config file, one that I used to install word press for another blog I have and then I uploaded the files to the folder that my secondary domain name is attached to. after that I went to the link in the Read Me file, /wp-admin/install.php, when the page loads everyhting is scrambled and looks like this.
    wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”, “WordPress › Error”); } require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); require_once(‘./includes/upgrade.php’); if (isset($_GET[‘step’])) $step = $_GET[‘step’]; else $step = 0; header( ‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8’ ); ?> >
    WordPress
    ‘.__(‘Already Installed’).’

    ‘.__(‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’).’
    ‘); switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking to this ?>

    ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you\’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.’), ‘../readme.html’); ?>

    ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address”)); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die(__(‘ERROR: that isn\’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: [email protected]’)); } $result = wp_install($weblog_title, ‘admin’, $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>

    log in with the username “admin” and password “%2$s”.’), ‘../wp-login.php’, $password); ?>

    Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you.’); ?>

    admin
    wp-login.php

    WordPress, personal publishing platform.’); ?>

    This is the second wordpress install for me the fisrt one works great but no matter what I do I can’t get the the set up to install the tables into the database. I even deleted the database once in hope that is was corrupt but no luck.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Database names I think need to be different, if not it won’t install right.

    I really do not think that two databases are necessary, but just a different directory.

    Thread Starter dkissell

    (@dkissell)

    They are 2 separate databases I have 2 websites that I want to run different blogs on that is why the directories are different.

    You can install 2+ in one “domain” or folder group.

    As long as the config files list different database names (and I would recommend different usernames), the second should be fine(it’s covered in the codex here).

    Now, if you’re seeing the PHP inside the browser, you’ve got gremlins that’ll need to be taken care of.

    Thread Starter dkissell

    (@dkissell)

    Nevermind I figured it out, The instructions should tell people that they need to enter the link like this in the browser domainname.com/wp-admin/install.php i finnaly realized what was happeneing but those people that are not network savy or understand about nameing conventions and how they work on the web may have a hard time with this.

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