leftsideways

/dir/www/blog/
/dir/www/blog/website-a/wp-config.php
/dir/www/blog/website-b/wp-config.php
/dir/www/blog/website-c/wp-config.php

I have 3 copies of WordPress running perfectly fine.
I copy the wp-config.php from website-b to /dir/www/blog/ for ‘backup’, without renaming it [mistake on my part]
Install fresh WordPress at /dir/www/blog/new-site/

The fresh install would read the previously configured wp-config.php that was in the directory below it. This was confirmed as the href links on the new-site/wp-login.php page had were set to website-b, not new-site.

…hope this helps to clear up the mud puddle i made!

Install in three parts:
a:ssh to server and change to website install directory
b:wget "ww.wp.xz.cn/latest.tar.gz" --no-check-certificate;tar -xzf latest.tar.gz;mv wordpress/*;rm -rf wordpress xmlrpc.php
c:use browser at domain for website directory

It was via an ssh shell and a browser.

Edit: forgot chown -R www-data:www-data *

ACK! Been busy working on said client site as there was a SUPER strange issue; perhaps you could forward it to the powers that be.

There was a web-user writable copy of a previous client’s wp-config.php file that was two directories back from the existing client’s website directory.

I am kicking self for having bad server permissions which would have prevented this, but interesting to note that the vanilla install was going back so many directories.