Wordpress Installation Issue

Hey guys,

I've installed the newest version of WP at zune audio dot com / index.php

I've set up the DBs and the installation went smoothly (no errors).

The problem is that when I hit up index.php (index.html is there so no one can see anything)

I get told that I haven't installed it yet.

I can access the backend, but when I go to see the test posts I get blank screens.

What's going wrong here?

Skinny

 

Check if the database tables where made and the config was written.

 

yup I modified the wp-config.php and uploaded it.

When I say to check DB I see this:

zuneaudio.wp_categories
zuneaudio.wp_comments
zuneaudio.wp_link2cat
zuneaudio.wp_links
zuneaudio.wp_options
zuneaudio.wp_post2cat
zuneaudio.wp_postmeta
zuneaudio.wp_posts
zuneaudio.wp_usermeta
zuneaudio.wp_users

and everything is ok.

(They seem to be setup to me . . I'm not great with DBs)

Skinny

 

What is the error message you are getting? Screenshot would help.
Did you move your domain name by any chance? If you did, try to perform a DNS flush... Easiest way is to reboot your PC.

 

It works fine for me now.

Nice to see that you fixed it

--Joe

 

Hmm it works now.

I did nothing

O well me not complaining.

Thanks for the help.

Skinny

 

Well . . . seems like everything isn't working properly.

The index.php works fine (I'm creating my own theme so it looks like crap now) but if I try click on a blog entry or access a comment I just get a blank page.

I've also looked at the source code of these blank pages and it is indeed blank (i.e. not a code error).

What is going on?

I manually had to process file by file via FTP because when I unzip the folder it always added a stupid wordpress folder which I didn't want.

Thanks for the help.

Skinny

 

So you have index.php and index.html in there same time? If so, it won't work. Index.php and Index.html is basically taking same jobs, it's telling you that it's the "index" of the folder. You'll have to remove one or other, or install blog in another folder on domain...

If you want, I can install this for you and do it proper for $49.95? I haven't launched my site yet, but it's weinstallwp.com. I used to do free installs with install4free.wordpress.com before, but I'm not anymore. I'm also going to provide far more services then install4free too though.

 

Twisted thanks for the help but I think you've misunderstood my post. I'm aware that having index.html there will now allow anyone to visit the index.php (unless you type it it).

Since I'm in the process of skinning wordpress it's not a big issue.

My problem is that after manually installing WP the admin panel works great, the first page is slowly getting themed by me, but any inner page just shows up as a blank page (w/ no source code).

Try it

zune audio dot com / index dot php

Click on any post / comment link and see what I mean.

Skinny

 

what is happening is that your index.html and index.php are conflicting

if you look at the url of one post down, it goes to your URL/?s=1. This is a query, so on your root domain it's expecting to find wordpress, i.e. index . php. As it is, index. html is taking priority -so you need to hide it

The way to resolve it is to temporarily rename the index . html to something else

and let the index.php do its magic.

 

as you can see this link works

zuneaudio . com/ index. php?p=3

- so it is your index. html getting in the way

 

Maybe it’s your theme? When you visit a page on Wordpress it doe not always use index.php If it’s a single page and you have "single.php" in the themes folder it will use this. Same goes for categories, archives, and pages.
Wordpress “looks” for the .php, if it’s not there it goes down the theme hierarchy.
So if it’s a single page this happens:
Wordpress “looks” for “single.php”
If it’s not found it looks for category.php (I think)
This continues until Wordpress reaches index.php.
So in your theme if you don’t have single.php your index.php must be able to display the posts properly. (BTW, make sure if you have a single…category… .php Wordpress is handling it correctly.)

 

Ahh . . .I see.

Proven wrong .

Thanks.

My theme needs work so I'll work on that.

Skinny

 

The guys before ShiftClip were pretty much saying what I had said, but since ShiftClip threw out that possibility then you could try what he suggested once. Just while viewing the initial post of your's, I was just thinking the index.html and index.php for WP itself was perhaps conflicting... Let us know how it goes then though..