eternaldreamSo I signed up for an account on godaddy.com. I chose the one for $15 a year, just because it's just for a class. I am having a hard time trying to install Wordpress. Here are all the steps I've taken so far. The site is http://www.tftblog.org by the way.
For the wp-config file, I made sure to put in the correct host names and such. Here's what it looks like:
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘My DB name as it appears on the account manager’);
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'my user name');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'my password');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'copied from the account manager, it's a string of text and numbers with hostedresource.com at the end');
Now, are the 'DB_USER' things supposed to be there? Or should it just be my "user name" in the parenthesis?
I use FTP Surfer to upload everything to my site. And I put in the information, and it's able to connect. So I dragged and dropped all the Wordpress files onto my site, on the top most level.
At first it wouldn't load the page at all, but I switched the thing to Linux instead of Windows on the configurations, and now I get this new message. When it comes up it has a GoDaddy header on top, that says it's hosted for free. Then it says:
Can’t select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the DB_NAME database.
* Are you sure it exists?
* Does the user "my user name" have permission to use the DB_NAME database?
* On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_DB_NAME. Could that be the problem?
If you don't know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.
So I tried typing my user name different ways, like it said. But still, nothing. And I made sure to see that the names matched those found in my account pages. So I have no idea what to do now. I tried looking around at similar problems, but I haven't found any solutions. Can anyone help?
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