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1. In_Correct
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I am using cpanel. I installed on a remote hosting server. I uploaded the install file, extracted it, so this must mean that WordPress is successfully installed.

   I tried to see what one of my WordPress sites looks like, and it says "Index Of"

   I click on the WordPress link, and it said there wasn't a wp-config,php file.

   I found the wp-config-sample file and copied all of that and created a wp-config file. I pasted everything from the wp-config-sample file.
   I just saved the wp-config in the same location that I found the wp-config-sample file. I did not delete the wp-config-sample file.

   I click on the link again and this time it said "error establishing database connection".

   I still don't know exactly how to put information in the "yourinformationgoeshere" tags. Where do I find it? And I found an article on this website and it says don't edit this information or you will have everybody in the world know your password.

   ?????????????????????

   How do I correct the problem where it says "Index Of"??????

   And how do I edit the config-php file, and in what directory do I stick the file, and what is a my sql database,

   how do I set up the User Name and Password

   and how do I keep this information from the public?

   I want to set up a WordPress User Name and Password so I can access and edit wordpress easily and securely.

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   And also what does this mean?!

   Allowed markup: a blockquote code em strong ul ol li.
   Put code in between backticks.

   It is on the New Topic In This Forum editor.

2. bh_WP_fan
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   You see "index of" because your site is not set to list index.php as the index page for the site. If you are on linux hosting add the following line to your .htaccess file

   DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

   A MySQL database is the most important part of your blog. You cannot use WordPress without one. Because I don't know who you are hosted with or how they handle databases I would say to contact them and see how they suggest creating a database. You will also need to create a database username and password and also assign them to your MySQL database. In your wp-config.php file there are areas between quotes where you need to enter in your database name, database username, and database password.

   Where it says "Allowed markup:" ... etc., this is telling users what type of html they can use and also telling them to put coding examples between backticks. If you do not know html and do not know what the em, strong, ul, ... etc., tags are, then you can just ignore this, or you can go research it at places like http://www.w3schools.com/

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