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I’ve got a couple reasons already, but my number one reason, and I’m glad I finally figured it out is…
#1 - You created an MSsql database by mistake! - arggghh , Oh No!!
The little teenie control panel icons at my web host weren’t big enough for me to figure out, hey it’s not MYsql.

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I know I know, I’m the only one who’s ever failed at an EE install right? 😊

I struggled with an install for quite some time… was scratching my head trying to FTP the files. Tried all-sorts. Wasn’t getting an error message but the files simply wouldn’t upload. Called the hosting company as I’d decided it must be their fault. To my embarrassment they informed my that I was trying to install to a domain that had only 10mb of storage allocated to it on the server.

:red: schoolboy error!

Increased the storage - all fine.

Looking at one URL in a browser but FTP app is looking at a completely different domain… certainly never happened to me. **whistles innocently**

“Yes that database DOES…

...ah.”

Had a host move everything from Virginia to Oregon, and left the old servers running for 3 months (just encase he needed to go backwards with the move).

So the “public” website, connected to the domain, was running on a server in Oregon, and the server I was logged into for FTP was an identical copy of everything running on a server in Virginia. The host forgot to mention the new server address (which at this host doesn’t include the domain) anywhere on his site.

I must have uploaded EE Update files maybe. . .  oh. . .  10 different time/ways and spent about 2 hours trying to solve the mystery.

The good news is that the owner of the hosting company picked up my tab at lunch last time I met with him. ;~D

Had a host move everything from Virginia to Oregon, and left the old servers running for 3 months…
So the “public” website, connected to the domain, was running on a server in Oregon, and the server I was logged into for FTP was an identical copy of everything running on a server in Virginia. ;~D

That’s looking like the number one reason to me. That one will be hard to beat! 😊

Looking at one URL in a browser but FTP app is looking at a completely different domain… certainly never happened to me. **whistles innocently**

Resurrecting this thread, but revised, Top 10 bone-headed reasons for thinking your EE install was busted!
Number one exactly as LC said (not to be confused with LG), thinking something’s amiss when the control panel tweaks have no effect, only because it’s the wrong CP in one of your core installs, instead of the full-version you paid good money for.

We moved client site to new hosting provider, and we told them to update their (hardcoded) DNS. 12 weeks later, they wondered why they could see all the content fine (inside their network, looking at the old server), while none of their clients (outside, not their network) were seeing their page updates.

Mind boggling.

It’s a good thing I have my competitive streak firmly under control, or I might go off and try to beat one of these. Sadly, I manage three installations of EE (one full, two EE Core) and all installed perfectly well. :down:

Wow, I’ve topped my own bone-headed-ness!
I just created a sub-domain, added the account to FireFTP - firefox FTP add-on…
Here’s where it gets good, I thought the account was for the sub-domain, but no-no-no, I dropped the EE-core install in the root of the top-level domain, luckily my other EE version there is in a sub-folder or that could of been catastrophic.
I should of went to httpdocs/subdomains… I just assumed the FTP login took me straight to the sub-domain since that’s what I put for the account info. Valuable lesson there, and close-call.

I’m glad everyone else is nearly perfect in these matters, lol. 😊

Updated 200 pages of products on one site. Went back next day to continue and it had all vanished - I spent a good 30 mins cursing about proxy caching (because that’s a bane) only to discover after a lot of rooting around that I had updated the old install (actually at a different host), not the new one.

{English sarcasm eyes="raised"}I was so pleased{/English sarcasm}.

However redoing all the work didn’t take as long as it did the first time.

Am I the dumbest one here?  Maybe just the tiredest?

Installed EE below the public directory.  EngineHosting had to go in and tell me what I did wrong - so it was dumb AND embarassing.  It was not anywhere close to my first install either.

Tired I say, tired.

I was too lazy to try.