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New Wordpress Installation Showing Error Message

by Dele
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Hi warriors,

I had completed a new wordpress installation on my server and tried to restore my files etc from my old blog but no data/information apart from the initial 1 post and 1 comment was showing on the new blog.

I then accessed the wp-confiq.php to update these variables

Data base name
Data Base User
Data Base Password

which i did and my site is now showing this error message.


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected in ...wp-config.php on line 1
Kindly advise on what i have to do to rectify the situation, even at least to restore it first of all to the initial position of not showing my restored posts.
#error #installation #message #showing #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author ToneUK
    Can you post the contents of your wp-config.php file. Making sure to blank out your database user and passwords.

    It looks like there is a syntax error causing the problem in this file. Maybe because there is whitespace before the <?php tag.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    Look at line 1 in wp-config.php. Looks like you deleted or added something by accident.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dele
    Thank you guys for your response.

    I have crosschecked for any blank spaces but cannot find any.

    I have also copied wp-confiq-sample.php to editor, placed my details in the slots provided and uploaded to server as wp-confiq.php, with no different result.

    Below is the wp-confiq.php. I have edited out the security details
    Thank you for your assistance.

    <?php/** * The base configurations of the WordPress. * * This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix, * Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information * by visiting {@link Editing wp-config.php « WordPress Codex Editing * wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host. * * This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the * installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file * to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values. * * @package WordPress */// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** ///** The name of the database for WordPress */define('DB_NAME', '');/** MySQL database username */define('DB_USER', '');/** MySQL database password */define('DB_PASSWORD', '');/** MySQL hostname */define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */define('DB_COLLATE', '');/**#@+ * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. * * Change these to different unique phrases! * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service} * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again. * * @since 2.6.0 */define('AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');define('NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');define('AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');define('NONCE_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');/**#@-*//** * WordPress Database Table prefix. * * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! */ = 'wp_';/** * WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English. * * Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen * language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install * de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de_DE' to enable German * language support. */define('WPLANG', '');/** * For developers: WordPress debugging mode. * * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development. * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG * in their development environments. */define('WP_DEBUG', false);/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. *//** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    Do you get the same error message if you put in a new copy of wp-config.php?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dele
    Originally Posted by Christian Little View Post

    Do you get the same error message if you put in a new copy of wp-config.php?

    I have tried putting in the wp-confiq-sample.php but not a new wp-confiq.php from elsewhere outside my server

    Where can i get that?
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