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Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#2545 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Improve no config file error message

Reported by: Viper007Bond Owned by: anonymous
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: Administration Version: 2.0.1
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

The error message that gets displayed when no wp-config.php is found is rather bland:

There doesn't seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn't work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.

I think we should spruce it up, make it more helpful, and link to the Codex rather than the OOOOLD docs.

Not to mention it seems that the auto-detection of the link to setup-config.php isn't that good. When installing on my local Windows PC and having the wordpress files in a folder called wordpress, it didn't figure it out and created the link wrong.

Change History (4)

comment:1 robmiller7 years ago

+1 for changing the URL to the Codex, but I don't think it particularly needs sprucing up.

comment:2 robmiller7 years ago

This is a dupe of #1936, it would seem.

comment:3 masquerade7 years ago

  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

comment:4 Nazgul6 years ago

  • Milestone 2.1 deleted
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