WordPress MU

Zac
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

Well.. I havent made it too far. I have done countless WP installs but this is my first MU. I made the first mistake of creating a config file.. I learned that is wrong and deleted that. I set the permissions to the root and contents folder to 777 but now I can not navigate past the Create a Configuration File page. I click and nothing happens. Any idea on how I can move to step 2 ?

Zac
Member
Posted 9 months ago #

Reading a bit more it seems that this is because the MU install is sub to a root WP install. It looks like I could disable some of my root files during install to make it work but I am afraid I am going to bone my whole site.

TonyBrown
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

I'm having the same problem. I've installed Word Press numerous time without the friggin headache MU is giving me. I need to eventually be able to use BuddyPress but can't get past the

"There doesn't seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started.

Create a Configuration File" error message" I can't get past this screen. Any ideas?

MrBrian
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

If wpmu doesn't create the config file, it's because it can't. You either need the root folder permissions as 777 or I believe you might be able to create an empty wp-config.php file and chmod it 777 for the install, then chmod the permission back afterwards for security reasons.

bizref
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

I don't understand why the wp-config.php file isn't even showing up in the unpacked zip file that I downloaded ... isn't there just a wp-config.php file I can upload from somewhere else?

Changing permissions to 777 doesn't move me past the "There doesn't seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started." error: and it just keeps refreshing this page, doesn't move forward when I click "create a config file"

I tried creating a blank config file but got a fatal error message regarding the blog-header.php or something, line 20 ... so that didn't work.

I don't get where the file is ...? It's not even on my hard drive...?

SteveAtty
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

bizref - there isn't one. Its created on the fly by the install process. A blank file will probably confuse it.

You must have something set incorrectly on your server somewhere.

GrunerNet
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

I've been having the exact same problem, and it definitely was not a permissions problem, as all the relevant files and directories are owned by the user/group that apache is running as. Some test php scripts that created dummy files proved that.

The problem, layed out again, is the following. After unpacking wordpress-mu, and pointing a browser to that location, a page comes up saying simply this:

"There doesn't seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started."

It also has a button saying "Create a Configuration File", but when this is pressed, nothing happens.

GrunerNet
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

Ok I stepped through it and found the problem.

It turns out this will only happen if you have an already existing wp-config.php file in the directory just below the installation directory. This was happening to me because I had an installation of wordpress in the root folder, and it had its wp-config.php file there.

The problem is with a single line (ver 2.7):
In the file wp-blog-header.php, this line searches for two possible wp-config.php files:

if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') && !file_exists( dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ) . '/wp-config.php')) {

I guess this problem could be fixed by changing this line to:

if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') ) {

I haven't tried that myself. I simply moved my root wordpress installation somewhere else temporarily.

dainismichel
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

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Thanks for posting an effective solution!

Best,
Dainis

NnamdiOkeke
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

Thanx GrunerNet,
nice pointout there.

Well, i just changed the '&&' there to an 'OR'.

Didn't have much time to investigate the code.
But do think this way, it should work with
subdomain mode and otherwise.

chickenandporn
Member
Posted 8 months ago #

Grab my RPM if it helps; or rebuild it yourself. Download details and rebuild details are at:

http://tech.b.chickenandporn.com/2009/03/27/wordpress-mu-27-5-rpm/

All it does is get around the concern of "did I copy it all there right?", but my installing into wordpress-mu, it should avoid/preserve your single-user install. You can even configure to use the same database, which I've done to show off old-vs-new themes and such.

nickdunny
Member
Posted 7 months ago #