Sorry as I am inexperienced, and I may not be fully clear at explaining myself.
A most strange issue in my site caused to display the wp-install.php instead of the frontpage. I fear a brute-force attack may succeed in entering my directories and harm my work. My question is this:
is deleting and replacing wp-install.php a safe measure?.
Does WordPress replace this php file at every update? In that case, I would have no problem in replace it after every update.
Please advice
Thank you very much in advance
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]]>When opening the wp.install.php file, this appears.
“Error: PHP is not running
WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.”
Have checked with the host, and their PHP version is above the requirements of the latest WordPress, and is running on all of their servers.
Any ideas ??
thanks,
]]>I have checked the DataBase info a bajillion times.
It runs the initial install of WP into my directory and I can see all of the files it places in there.
When I go to the readme.html file the WP puts in there and the click on the wp-install link…
all i get is a “0” in the top left corner of the page and nothing else.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!!!
(also…please send any help in simple terms. I am not much of a web wiz.)
]]>I am administering a WordPress site that was set up for an organisation before I took it over.
Now, I’m implementing WordPress at another site and the “5 minute” installation is not as much of a breeze as I thought.
== Issues and Background ==
(1) The web site hosting service seems to bury the ‘actual’ site several layers down.
The error message from running wp-install.php illustrates this:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in D:\clients\mysite.com\mysite.com\mysite.com\wordpress\wp-settings.php on line 188
(2) I have tried:
a. leaving the MYSQL database address in the wp-config.php file as ‘localhost’;
b. putting the ‘actual’ address in rather than leaving as ‘localhost’ (as ‘https://1.2.3.4’ where the numbers are examples!); and,
c. I’ve also tried putting the port number in (as ‘https://1.2.3.4:1234’ where the numbers are examples!);
And, no attempt seems to make any difference.
(3) I have done all this several times over from several computers running various browsers and operating systems.
== Request ==
Clues would be helpful, and faithfully tried.
]]>I’ve gone through the unzipping, creating a database, adding a user, changing wp-config settings to reflect those, uploading all the files. But when I try to run wp-install.php, in Firefox I get a blank page.
Here’s where it gets interesting: In IE, I get a page loading, but the bar at the bottom of the screen says “Opening page https://www.domainname.com/index.php/index.php/index.php…” etc. And it seems to keep adding those “index.php”s until it finally gives up and gives me an “Action canceled” message.
I’ve been through the instructions, I’ve done everything, I’ve checked and re-checked the settings in cpanel and in wp-config.php, and I can’t see what I’m doing wrong. Any ideas?
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