Installed successfully; home page still redirects to install.php
Try repairing the wp_options table, that solved the issue for me months ago. Also make sure the table prefix in wp-config.php is correct.
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Shortest possible shell script to install WordPress on Nginx server?
Having the “shortest” script is a fairly pointless goal here I think, besides for entertainment purposes. But if you are looking for something that is very minimal and easy to understand, you can check out Bash scripts like my own free SlickStack project on GitHub, which is geared toward LEMP stack newbies. Keep mind that … Read more
Custom WordPress Installation
My first thought was the BackupBuddy plugin from iThemes. The downside is that it is very definitely not free. Actually, the code is all GPLv2, but you can’t get it unless someone who has paid for it (like myself) gave it to you (which I’m not offering to do for ethical reasons). However, the basics … Read more
Steps to debug on a blank screened wordpress install
Add the following to wp_config.php: define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true ); Reset the Plugins folder Revert to the default Theme (currently Twenty Eleven), using a similar method to the Plugin-reset step (just be sure that the only Theme available in /wp-content/themes/ is twenty-eleven) If your site is restored, great! If not, you likely have some sort of … Read more
URL to download latest version of WP for other languages than English
Can you include WP-CLI in your script? Then it could be as easy as: wp core config –dbname=wordpress_default –locale=”<your locale>” –dbuser=sqluser –dbpass=sqlpass –quiet wp core install –url=local.wordpress.dev –quiet –title=”Local WordPress Dev” –admin_name=admin –admin_email=”[email protected]” –admin_password=”password” Docs for wp core config and wp core install
After moving wordpress some files still point to old directory
Did you follow these docs?: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress You can leave all your files in /wordpress/ and simply make WordPress appear to be in root. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install If /html/website is really web root, you don’t use that string in any configurations, you use mydomain.com.
wp core install database connection error
First ensure the normal browser install works. If not, here’s a really good article on that: How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress. Next thing to note is that your database may not be hosted on localhost. Then try to create the wp-config.php using 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.1:8889 (for MAMP for example) … Read more
How to Check the Directory Where WordPress is Installed?
Quick and dirty: Go to the theme editor and echo ABSPATH in a comment of header.php.
How do I setup a WordPress site on a server before the domain is ready?
I normally just map my hosts file to the correct IP. This would work if you were only wanting to work on a site from your box only. Only benefit to this option, as opposed to others, is that you wouldn’t need to change any of your WordPress settings to go live.
How do I install two versions of WordPress on 1 server?
The database connection constants are defined in the wp-config.php file. Whether the 2 wp-config.php files in the jiewmeng directory and the WordPress directory are the same? You need to create 2 different databases and set their constants in the respective wp-config.php files.