file not existing: wp-config.php ?

  • Resolved cardinal4

    (@cardinal4)


    18 years, 10 months ago

    I’d followed all the instructions at the manual and uploaded the wp files over to my root directory. But when i ran install.php when it said that “There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file………”, when i could still see it in my FTP client that it was in ../wp-config.php.

    I checked and the immediate error was with the file_exists() function at the top of the install.php script. The function, for some reason, couldn’t find my wp-config.php. It also couldn’t find wp-config-sample.php as well.

    Please help me. I’m using a free hoster. Does the fact that safe_mode is turned on [the hoster won’t turn it off] help?

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  • What’s the file permissions set to the wp-config.php file? It should be 666 so that it can be read and written to.

    @drmike,
    that advice , I am afraid, is as wrong as it could be. I mean it cannot bbe worse ??
    No, you don’t need the wp-config to be chmod 666, so that every idiot hacker could access it. 644 is very fine.
    And it never gets written. Totally wrong!

    Sorry. Could have sworn that it gets written on the install. You can delete that if you want.

    edit: And I never said to keep it at 666. ??

    Thread Starter cardinal4

    (@cardinal4)

    I did what you told me to, to change the permissions. I set all to 744, which i think is more than what you said, but it still didn’t work. I even set the file permissions of wp-config.php and install.php to Full Settings (777? I forgot?) but it didn’t work. Then i switched hosts and everything worked perfectly. So thankz everyone anyways. I still think it’s something to do with safe_mode=On. Because that’s what the new host had and what the old host didn’t have.

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