i'm having this trouble w/ installing wordpress.
in the readme.html it says open wp-config-sample.php so i open it. i set up a database, the name of the db is wordpress and my username is Issay and my password, shall i say.. is mercy. so i did it like this....

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'pass'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'pass'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
$table_prefix = 'wp_'; // example: 'wp_' or 'b2' or 'mylogin_'

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* Stop editing */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>
and saved it as wp-config.php

the fifth step is to show wp-admin/install.php, when i show it to mozilla on the top of the page it says something 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."); require_once('../wp-config.php'); require_once('./upgrade-functions.php'); $guessurl = str_replace('/wp-admin/install.php?step=2', '', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) ); if (isset($_GET['step'])) $step = $_GET['step']; else $step = 0; header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' ); ?>

i don't get it. :dead:

what's wrong???

I removed your login and password, as thomas'sweb says, you really shouldn't post things like that on a public forum - Mod

did you upload the new wp-config.php file?

uhh... you really shouldn't put your password on a public website....

i did say "shall i say...." if you didn't know what i meant by that it means "example". i only gave -mercy- as an example.

i really don't get it i've uploaded everything, the wp-config.php too, but still it says the same thing........... :dead:

Hello! I'm having the same problem for me here, and I figured making a new post would be just redundant so I'd just like to know if you've solved it or are you still needing help?

I can't believe I'm stuck at the most basic thing! the 'famous 5 min wordpress installation' driven beyond 2 days

oh by the way, do you need to delete the // marks with their info?

Have you renamed wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php?

Yes, but it still gives me that 'no wp-config.php file found'. Am I supposed to delete the // parts, and still go to /wp-admin/install.php even if I uploaded it into my root directory? I'm hosted, by the way. :)

Thank you!

One problem I found when I started working with MySQL databases is that some servers require that you use your login name_username that you assigned for your database. The login name is the name you use to login to your ftp and cpanel.

Did you assign a username and password for your MySQL database?
If you did try setting up your login information and database information like this:


DB_Name: loginname_wordpress
DB_username: loginname_username (the username you set up in your MySQL database area)
DB_password: password (do not include your login name before your password)

Maybe that will help. Also those are some wierd errors I see there that I have never recieved with wordpress, may try re-installing it. I am not sure if you have already.

If you are hosted, you need to contact your hostest/host and have them set up a database for you. You'll need to also make sure you have the correct paths etc.