Title: Serious Install Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Serious Install Problems

 *  [al3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/al3x/)
 * (@al3x)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/)
 * I’m trying to install WordPress on my host’s OpenBSD server (Apache 1.3.27, PHP
   4.2.3, 3.23.55) and having a terrible time of it. I’m by no means a newbie to
   the Unix world, installing CMSs, etc. I’ve tried the following steps with with
   the current stable release, a nightly build, and a CVS checkout from about 10
   minutes ago. Nothing works.
    I go through the install-config.php script and, 
   regardless of having permissions to write to the necessary directory, it fails
   to install a wp-config.php. I then create this file manually and proceed to the
   install.php page which displays _nothing_. No errors, no output at all. Nothing.
   And yes, the file has the right permissions to be executed by the web server 
   and all that. So I can’t go any further from there. It’d be swell if somebody
   had a clue for me, ’cause I’m at a loss.

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 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason/)
 * (@jason)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/#post-34620)
 * You say you created the file manually… did you just make a blank file, or actually
   add the information from wp-config-sample.php (or whatever the name is), changing
   things where appropriate?
 *  Thread Starter [al3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/al3x/)
 * (@al3x)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/#post-34632)
 * I figured that it’s something with my host, which has had its share of problems.
   Moving to a new host.
 *  Thread Starter [al3x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/al3x/)
 * (@al3x)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/#post-34641)
 * Nah, my host was [RootRoute](http://www.rootr.net/), and is now [Dr2](http://www.dr2.net/).
   In all honesty I’ve had so many problems with RootRoute that I skipped diagnosing
   this problem and used this as a justification to jump ship to another host. Life’s
   too short!
 *  [chuck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuck/)
 * (@chuck)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/#post-34642)
 * Hmm… it appears all I had to do was change the perms on wp-config.php from 644
   to 664 and voilà — it worked. The blog is now set up.
 *  [chuck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuck/)
 * (@chuck)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/#post-34648)
 * Sorry, I should clarify that last post, so it’s a little more helpful to anyone
   else who might encounter the same problem:
    Any files that the webserver (including
   PHP, CGI and any other webform) will write to or modify must: – be 644 (and directories
   755), if you know the USER that the webserver runs as, and you must also change
   the ownership on the files/directories to that same user. For apache, this is
   usually “nobody”, “apache” or “www”, depending on how it’s been set up. – be 
   664 (and directories 775), if you know the GROUP that the webserver runs as, 
   and you must also change the group ownership on the files/directories to that
   same group. This is usually the same as the username. For example, when I ftp
   into my wife’s weblog site, I see the following: 230-User <username> has group
   access to: <username> I hadn’t expected the wp-config.php file to need writing
   to, so I had set it to 644, but decided to change it to 664 just in case. And
   that worked. Anyway… – be 666 (and directories 777), if you either don’t know
   the user/group of the webserver, or you don’t have permission to change the file/
   directory permissions to their ownership. Note that this means anyone with access
   to this website, either through login or a badly-written PHP script, can overwrite
   these files and directories, which is bad.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [chuck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuck/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-install-problems/#post-34648)
 * Status: not resolved

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