Installing WP myself – First 2 times database error – This time Fatal error

  • I have installed and removed twice. But this time decide to ask for help.

    When I try printmakingnewsletter.com/wp-admin I get a 404 error
    When I try printmakingnewsletter.com I get the following

    Warning: require(/home/printmakingnewsl/public_html/wp-blog-header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/printmakingnewsl/public_html/index.php on line 17

    Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/printmakingnewsl/public_html/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/printmakingnewsl/public_html/index.php on line 17

    I wonder if anyone can help so that I don’t need to start again. I am not great at this but I don’t like using the quick installs although I did try fantastico with this two times ago.

    Looking forward to any help available’ Thank you in advance for your time.
    Regards
    Sandra

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  • It looks to me like ‘/home/printmakingnewsl/public_html/’ should maybe actually be something more like ‘/home/public_html/printmakingnewsl/’ as an actual server path, but then also: ‘/home/public_html/’ would not be part of the actual URL for your browser. So, it looks to me like you have some kind of path and/or URL issue to fix.

    Thread Starter sandra.k.er

    (@sandraker)

    OK but that covers a lot of territory and I don’t have the skill to cover that territory. I can remove it and start again but the would be the third or fourth time. The only thing I can think of is if I make a webpage first and that is the index.html then I add the WP ??? I don’t know enough.

    At your host, you have a ‘home’ folder known by whatever name, and there is where my own ‘/public_html/’ folder is located. Then, your WordPress installation typically goes either in ‘/public_html/’ or in a sub-folder such as ‘/public_html/wordpress/’. After you have decided about that as to where your WordPress is to actually be installed, you tell cPanel to actually point and/or to assign your Domain to that specific location so your mydomain.com will land at either /public_html/ -or- /public_html/wordpress/ (where in either case your .htaccess file next directs it to index.php as if you had typed ‘mydomain.com/index.php’ in your browser).

    note: If you can make your Domain land at an index.html file somewhere, just place your WordPress wp-folders and wp-files in that same location and then add the .htaccess to direct your domain to index.php rather than to index.html.

    Thread Starter sandra.k.er

    (@sandraker)

    Thank you for your help. I had to sleep and then work and now I have tried again – but unsuccessful. Have to sleep so will try again later in the week.

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