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when i recieve this, it was saying either my WP-config file is incorrect or the database server is down. i don't know what to do next please help!

any suggestions are appreciated

check if your SQL Server is down
check if you can login with your login Data in any mysql admin tool (e.g. phpmyadmin)
check if your wp-config file is correct

Apart from what Altrea has said, you also need to get these settingsright in your WP-Config file:

Code: Select all: // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); /** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER', ' '); /** MySQL database password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', ' '); /** MySQL hostname */ define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Also make sure you have already created the database wordress before running the setup process.

hth

Ah I c, for the db user it was set to "root" next to it I dunno if that suppose to change and I may have check the mysql as well

I have found that mysql server was down and it seem I was able to get t to start again but the problem seem to be the same though.

After uninstalling and reinstalling and reach to the point of wordpress login and it asked me to download this install.php file and i dunno what to do with it.

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <title> &rsaquo; Log In</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="; charset=UTF-8" /> <link rel='stylesheet' id='login-css' href='http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php/wp-admin/css/login.css?ver=20110121' type='text/css' media='all' /> <link rel='stylesheet' id='colors-fresh-css' href='http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php/wp-admin/css/colors-fresh.css?ver=20110121' type='text/css' media='all' /> <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> </head> <body class="login"> <div id="login"><h1><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress"></a></h1> <form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="/wp-login.php" method="post"> <p> <label>Username<br /> <input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" class="input" value="" size="20" tabindex="10" /></label> </p> <p> <label>Password<br /> <input type="password" name="pwd" id="user_pass" class="input" value="" size="20" tabindex="20" /></label> </p> <p class="forgetmenot"><label><input name="rememberme" type="checkbox" id="rememberme" value="forever" tabindex="90" /> Remember Me</label></p> <p class="submit"> <input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" class="button-primary" value="Log In" tabindex="100" /> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="/wp-admin/" /> <input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" /> </p> </form> <p id="nav"> <a href="/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword" title="Password Lost and Found">Lost your password?</a> </p> </div> <p id="backtoblog"><a href="/" title="Are you lost?">← Back to </a></p> <script type="text/javascript"> function wp_attempt_focus(){ setTimeout( function(){ try{ d = document.getElementById('user_login'); d.focus(); d.select(); } catch(e){} }, 200); } wp_attempt_focus(); if(typeof wpOnload=='function')wpOnload(); </script> </body> </html>

because of this, it was creating a loophole, preventing me to log in

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