Comments on: 1-Click Self-Installation of WordPress with Media Temple

By: Brett Bumeter

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:31:05 +0000

I’ve installed WordPress several hundred times and this is not as easy nor as secure out of the box as running a Fantastico install via cpanel. I dislike the default username of admin. Doesn’t give you an option to change it until after you log in to wordpress.

By: Brett Bumeter

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:27:04 +0000

good advice from IncomeHunter but scroll a little further for more detailed tutorial

By: Zachary

Zachary — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:02:04 +0000

Thanks Ronnie! Thats very helpful.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:03:48 +0000

I had the same “directory error” when one-click installing WordPress. There was no “install anyway” choice. So I did the following using the advice provided by IncomeHunter on this thread on 28 Jul 09.

Solution to

1. Using a FTP program, such as the free FileZilla, connect to your account using the FTP login info provided by MT in the welcome email.

My example>

Host : http://ftp.sXXXXX.gridserver.com
UserName: (My Domain name without the leading www – example: bluesky.com)
Password: (The new password I reset in Account Centre)

(For some reason the password provided to me in the welcome email was not valid but I was able to login using browser to Account Centre> Admin > Server Guide and change the password in the FTP section.)

2. Once connected on FTP, go to /domains folder and find your domain listed there (example: bluesky.com)

3. Right click on it and rename it to bluesky.com.old

4. Now you should be able to one click install wordpress as normal.

By: Colin Dean

Colin Dean — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:30:54 +0000

This is only available for grid server not for shared servers–is that correct?

Thanks

By: benjamingadbaw

benjamingadbaw — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:04:43 +0000

I am having the same problem as @squeezebox (no “install anyway” button when the Directory Error appears). Is there a more detailed solution for this than the ones provided so far?

By: IncomeHunter

IncomeHunter — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:19:32 +0000

Inside of /home/#####/domains, rename the folder for the domain you’re trying to install onto. So if your Domain Name is mt-example.com, you’d rename that to mt-example.com.old.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:54:07 +0000

If you're having trouble either with the installation process used by MediaTemple or with deleting or renaming files on your hosting account, you might want to give MediaTemple support a buzz and see if they can help you out with those features.

By: squeezebox

squeezebox — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:53:26 +0000

This video is great except for one tiny problem for me. When It comes to the Directory Error, I don’t have the “Install anyway” button. I’m not sure if this is something that Media Temple has recently changed or something different with my account. But if it’s a new thing for Media Temple, it might be helpful to update video to reflect that. I’m told that I must “rename or delete the already existing directory” before I can install and frankly I have no idea how to do that. So, I’m dead in the water at the moment. Does anyone know how to deal with this issue?

Thanks.

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:55:45 +0000

You can’t transfer your account across directly, as one is one our servers, the other yours – but as good as: if you head to Tools > Export, you can export your posts from WordPress.com. In your new installation, go to Tools> Import, and you’ll be able to bring all of your content in.