v. small budget site (local fishing club) with budget hosting (no one-click Wordpress install on c-panel... ) ftp'd wordpress files into the root, but when i go to   http://kokkolankalastajainseura.fi/wp-admin/install.php?step=1 i get a 
"This page isn’t working
kokkolankalastajainseura.fi is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500"

if i refresh the page i get the the start of the install process but with bits missing from the bottom half don't know whethe this is  user error or something wrong on the server - what's the next step?

Have you created the database? You need to do this before attempting to install wordpress

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

 

 

yes that's where i went to find instructions (it's about 8 years ago since i did this  added the database and edited the  wp config and updated it on the server (just covered the username and pw in the screenshot)

 

database creation was successful. i even went to the database manger and did a check, and also a repair database and they were allegedly ok.  

And have you created the user?

Unless the WP installer knows about 'dave' it can't progess.

lol thinki'm too tired to do this properly - thought i could create user, but what i need to do is pick  an existing user (i.e. the username i registered with the db: kokko829_john? and then just  enter the password when it recognises this user?

That should do it.

it should but it didn't   after i  put in the username (the username i used for the database) there is no next step - no way to go to the password. I tried  in a a different browser (first chrome then firefox) and same problem there. damn. 

 

what else can i check or  do?

Edited October 6, 20187 yr by davep

I've already added the user to the database and assigned ALL priveleges... don't understand this at all. on my hosting it was so easy with the one click install thing. evenlast time i did this it worked just fine. i don't  understand why it only loads half that dialogue box and not the password field 

 

it should look like the attached of course

Edited October 6, 20187 yr by davep

I've just set up a WP site using the method detailed in the codex and it all worked perfectly. But I did use PHP MyAdmin and followed the exact steps listed.

thanks, strange. friend suggested it could be a file permissions issue - that WP might not have sufficient permissions to write what it needs to... will look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions and post back when i've tried that

thanks, strange. friend suggested it could be a file permissions issue - that WP might not have sufficient permissions to write what it needs to... will look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions and post back when i've tried that

 

UPDATE: omg. nope. changed all the folders to 775 and files to 664 recursively in the root (public html 'root' folder) and still the same poo. client is asking about upgrading to the next level package (gold!) with the one-click install option. only 2 euos more a month looks likely .... still want to know why this isn't working. either it's the server config or my error.

 

 

Have you tried creating a user in PHP MyAdmin rather than use cpanel?

Are you sure your wp-config.php is 100% correct?

Edited October 7, 20187 yr by fisicx

update: now works! lol deleted the whole thing, made a new DB and added user then went through the setup -i think last time i got something mixed up with the user pw and the db or something -no messing about with read/write permissions or anything. thanks for all the help.  was slightly less than 5 minutes (this time). 

Glad to hear that it is okay now. Most hosting companies like mine have a 1 click installer ready for wordpress and other CMS like Joomla, Drupal, etc.

8 hours ago, jazperson said:

Glad to hear that it is okay now. Most hosting companies like mine have a 1 click installer ready for wordpress and other CMS like Joomla, Drupal, etc.

yeah most do - what i was hoping for -the next package up is only 2 euros more a month with cpanel installation. to be honest once i focused on what i was doing it was pretty easy - 5minutes or so from start to finish 

What domain name is that? That is going to hard for someone to remember.

6 hours ago, justlukeyou said:

What domain name is that? That is going to hard for someone to remember.

Kokkola Fishing association - sounds long but in Finnish it's quite easy to remember  not my choice either