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wordpress 2.8 not installing... what's up?

by LastingLifeSuccess
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Hey Warriors,

I'm wondering if you can help me... I just uploaded all wordpress files, and I modified my wp_config.php file properly... however, when I go to the website.com/wp-admin/install.php, this message comes up:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@lastinglifehealing.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.



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Apache/1.3.41 Server at lastinglifehealing.com Port 80
Any idea why??

Thanks!
Rebecca
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  • Profile picture of the author imtm
    nothing to do with any other files...
    just create a sql database....

    give user name, password, db name..and it would automatically install your site
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  • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
    I recommend wordpress 2.5.1. It's the fastest, most intuitive version so far.

    2.8 is way too buggy and it's much more trouble than it's worth, for now.

    It even crashed and deleted my database once.

    Get 2.5.1 and see if you have the same problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
      Originally Posted by havefunandlive View Post

      2.8 is way too buggy and it's much more trouble than it's worth, for now.
      Oh pfft. If you know of bugs, please open a ticket on WordPress Trac otherwise quit saying it's buggy. It is not.

      It even crashed and deleted my database once.
      Pretty amazing feat considering there are no TRUNCATE DATABASE or DROP DATABASE MySQL statements in the entire WP codebase.
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      • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
        Originally Posted by SteveJohnson View Post

        Oh pfft. If you know of bugs, please open a ticket on WordPress Trac otherwise quit saying it's buggy. It is not.



        Pretty amazing feat considering there are no TRUNCATE DATABASE or DROP DATABASE MySQL statements in the entire WP codebase.
        If you don't want to believe me, that's fine. It's all the same to me.

        In my experience, it was buggy and lead to my database crashing and disappearing on hostgator, whereas with 2.5.1, I never had that problem.
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        • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
          Originally Posted by havefunandlive View Post

          If you don't want to believe me, that's fine. It's all the same to me.

          In my experience, it was buggy and lead to my database crashing and disappearing on hostgator, whereas with 2.5.1, I never had that problem.
          I didn't come off in the right tone, sorry.

          I definitely believe you had that db problem. But it wasn't WP that caused it...

          I have had an issue or two with HG and their MySQL servers in the recent past. Never a db disappearing, but a number of corrupted tables.

          I objected to your general statement of 2.8 being 'buggy'. There are some bugs - but far fewer than in past versions. But I was also being serious - if you know of a bug, take a couple of minutes to put it on the Trac so someone can fix it before the next release.

          And installing 2.5.1 is sheer lunacy as there are several vulnerabilities that are well-known to hackers. You're just asking for big-time trouble.
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      • Profile picture of the author KevinBrown
        I always recommend getting a hosting service, which provides the Fantastico auto script install.

        Only two minutes or less, to install WordPress (including 2.8) - has worked like a dream, so far.

        Kevin
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  • Profile picture of the author ppc4profit
    Internal Server Error messages are often caused by a problem in the .htaccess file.

    Does the error log give you any other information you could share?
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  • Profile picture of the author LastingLifeSuccess
    I tried uploading wordpress 2.7.1 instead and running the install, and now the error message says this:

    404 Error - Not Found
    The resource you have requested could not be found on the server. There are many possible reasons for this. Either the file does not exist, there is an error in your request, or the file is not accessible in the requested directory. Please verify that:

    You have used the proper case; requests ARE case-sensitive!
    You have entered the URL correctly. (i.e. proper directory/filename)
    You used the FULL URL. (i.e. proper file type: .html, .gif , .jpg, etc.)
    You use a tilde (~) before user directories. (i.e. www.furcen.org/~jurann/ )
    The user/file still exists on this server.
    I don't know why it's not working... I've used 2.7.1 in a lot of my websites and it's been fine... I can't figure out what's going on now :-\
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    1st things first - DO NOT use any versions of WordPress prior to v2.7. ESPECIALLY 2.5. You're just begging to get hacked.

    Next, you don't need to go to admin/install.php. WP knows when it's been installed. Use the URL that you uploaded the files to. In this case, go to http://lastinglifehealing.com.

    It does not appear that you've uploaded the files to the correct location, or for one reason or another the files are being corrupted during your upload.

    Use 2.8. Start with a clean file set. Get it from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip. Drop all the existing tables if any in your database.

    For this attempt, don't change the wp-config-sample.php file. Just leave it as-is. Unzip and upload the files to your server. Navigate to your domain in your fav browser.

    WP will tell you that it can't find the configuration file and that it can try to build one. Let it. Feed it your db info. After it builds the wp-config.php file, it will go on and try to install the db tables and such.

    That we're seeing a 404 page right now means that your server can't find an index page to display - index.php, index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm. THAT means to me that there's a problem with your file uploads.
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  • Profile picture of the author LastingLifeSuccess
    For this attempt, don't change the wp-config-sample.php file. Just leave it as-is. Unzip and upload the files to your server. Navigate to your domain in your fav browser.

    WP will tell you that it can't find the configuration file and that it can try to build one. Let it. Feed it your db info. After it builds the wp-config.php file, it will go on and try to install the db tables and such.
    Steve-- thanks for the help... I'm still getting the same message though. I deleted all files, made sure there were no databases created from my previous attempts, uploaded 2.8 without modifying the config, and went to http://lastinglifehealing.com

    Then, the same message came up.

    Is there something else I can try?

    Thanks!
    Rebecca
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