Installing on a subdomain, wp-admin/install.php issues

  • JimGR

    (@jimgr)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I am currently trying to install wordpress on a subdomain (blog.domain.com) which is pointed to my hosting service (domain.com is pointed at a Blogger blog hosted elsewhere, which I’m taking down later and replacing with a static page) and failing miserably. I have some limited HTML/CSS knowledge but I suspect I’m running before I can walk here and need some help.

    The root domain has a public_html folder in my FTP client, I was instructed by my registrar’s support to create a folder ‘blog’ in here and upload the wordpress files here to install to blog.domain.com. All files are there and I’ve edited wp-config.php for the MySQL database (fairly certain I have this done right…).

    However, when I try to access blog.domain.com/wp-admin/install.php in my browser I get the following:

    Not Found

    The requested URL /wp-admin/install.php was not found on this server.

    Apache Server at blog.xyz.xyz Port 80

    If I just access blog.domain.com then I can’t tell if this is working. It displays the contents of the index.html file that my registrar placed in the public_html folder when I bought hosting from them.

    What am I doing wrong?

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  • govpatel

    (@govpatel)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    The subdomain name you created is it redirected to blog folder.

    Thread Starter JimGR

    (@jimgr)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    I created an A record ‘blog’ for the domain in the DNS settings that points to the IP address I was given when I signed up for the hosting and I have a folder within public_html (one down from root, which only has that and ‘logfiles’) called ‘blog’ to which I have uploaded the WP files.

    Does that answer the question (I’m not terribly sure if it does…)?

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