Title: Missing wp-config Error…file isn’t missing Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Missing wp-config Error…file isn’t missing * Resolved [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/) * Sometime this weekend my blog started throwing the error “There doesn’t seem to be a 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.” * The wp-config file existed then and exists now. I have deleted and reuploaded every file on my blog and it’s still throwing the error. * My Admin tool works fine except that I can’t load any of the pages for my plugins. * Anyone have any experience with this? Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637607) * Can’t navigate to [http://www.modernforager.com/](http://www.modernforager.com/) it sets the address to [http://www.modernforager.com/blog](http://www.modernforager.com/blog)? * In what folder are the wordpress files contained? * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637612) * [http://www.modernforager.com/blog](http://www.modernforager.com/blog) * I have an index.php redirect in the site root. One day the root is going to become a storefront. * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637614) * So you have a wp-config.php file in the blog folder? * Who is your host? * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637615) * Yes, wp-config.php in the /blog folder. * My host is Laderweb, who has been having some troubles lately. I’m considering switching to GoDaddy or some other. Suggestions on that? Would my host matter with WP not finding the config file? * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637617) * If you put the script, that is describe in [Finding_server_info](http://codex.wordpress.org/Finding_server_info), in your blog folder, can you navigate to that and see the PHP info? * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637619) * Yes, here is what I get from that: [http://www.modernforager.com/blog/phpinfo.php](http://www.modernforager.com/blog/phpinfo.php) * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637622) * So does that tell you anything? * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637629) * Please delete that phpinfo.php file now–just wanted to make sure that you were putting files in the correct place. * This statement confuses me: * > My Admin tool works fine except that I can’t load any of the pages for my plugins. * What is the Admin tool you are referring to? * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637637) * Oh…gotcha. Yeah, all the files are in the right place. This install has been up and running for a month now, give or take. I went out of town Friday, came back yesterday and was faced with that error. Even reuploading all of the files hasn’t done anything and now my Admin side says it can’t open the plugins directory even though it’s all there. * The Admin tool for WordPress where I write posts, manage plugins/options, etc. * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637684) * Since this works, [http://www.modernforager.com/blog/wp-login.php](http://www.modernforager.com/blog/wp-login.php) that means it is finding the database. * I wonder if that redirect or something in your .htaccess is messing with you. * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637692) * It was all working until sometime after Friday around 4pm (when I left town). Going directly to [http://www.modernforager.com/blog/index.php](http://www.modernforager.com/blog/index.php) gets the same error. This is running on a Windows box, so that means no .htaccess right? Why would the redirect affect the blog directory? * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637744) * Anyone? * Thread Starter [skustes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skustes/) * (@skustes) * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-wp-config-errorfile-isnt-missing/#post-637978) * Switching hosts got the blog back up and running. This can be closed. 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