[ale] Wordpress set up

[Warren Myers]

you don't visit the page on the server... you visit it through a browser

what directory did you install WPmu into? Is the php-mysql package installed
and running?

WMM

On 5/1/07, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> I am trying to follow the sequence of steps to set up wordpress mu.
>
> I have done the following to set up the database.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> If you have shell <http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Shell> access to
> your web server, are comfortable with using the command line, and your MySQL
> user has the permissions <http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Permissions>to create MySQL users and databases, you may follow the example session
> below to create your WordPress username and database.
>
> $ mysql -u adminusername -p
> Enter password:
> Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
> Your MySQL connection id is 5340 to server version: 3.23.54
>
> Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
>
> mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename;
> Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO
> "wordpressusername"@"hostname"
>     -> IDENTIFIED BY "password";
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
>
> mysql> EXIT
> Bye
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I have set up wp-config.php.
>
> I have placed all the wordpress files and directories in the document root
> of apache (i.e., /var/www/html) on Fedora core 5
>
> The instructions then say
>
> If you installed into the root directory of your web site, you would visit
> http://192.168.1.56/wp-admin/install.php.
>
> But, there is no install.php in /var/www/html/wp-admin.
>
> The only thing close is index-install.php in /var/www/html.  But when I
> try to use this, I get the following:
>
> Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required
> for WordPress.
>
> I hate to be so long on this, but does anyone have a suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry Bailey
>
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