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1. paieye
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I have completed Steps 1 - 4, but I simply cannot work out what is involved in Step 5. Could some kind person explain Step 5 in VERY simple terms ?

2. hbalagh
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   what is it asking i forgot what step 5 is?

3. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Please explain where you have got to, and what the full error is you are seeing.

4. paieye
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Step 5 is "Launch wp/admin/install.php in your browser. This should set up the tables needed for your blog", &c.

5. hbalagh
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   go to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

6. hbalagh
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   or if you have your blog in directory like blog/ then go to http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

7. paieye
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   My site is http://members.lycos.co.uk/myname. Am I to go to http://members.lycos.co.uk/myname/wp-admin/install.php ? If I do that, I always get an error-message.

8. paieye
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I ought to have said, 'The message being "This page cannot be found" '

9. tomhanna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Then it's probably in a subdirectory below that like (and this is just an example):

   http://members.lycos.co.uk/myname/BLOG/wp-admin/install.php

   Do you know what directory you uploaded WordPress to?

10. paieye
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I uploaded WP to ftp://members.lycos.co.uk/myname.

    I wonder if the fault lies in my wp-config.php, which reads:

    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');http://members.lycos.co.uk // The name of the database
    define('DB_USER', 'username'); myname// Your MySQL username
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); mypassword// ...and password
    define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

    // Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
    $table_prefix = 'wp_'; // example: 'wp_' or 'b2' or 'mylogin_'

    // Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
    // For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
    // to enable German language support.
    define ('WPLANG', '');

    /* Stop editing */

    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
    require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
    ?>

11. Michael Bishop
    Forum Concierge
    Posted 6 years ago #

    I would change the config to http://members.lycos.co.uk/yourname

    also, are you sure that you installed wordpress in the root of your yourname, and not /yourname/wordpress?

12. paieye
    Member
    Posted 6 years ago #

    No, I am afraid that I have had no success with that --- or with WordPress. Instead, I have changed to TypePad, which has proved quite excellent. My thanks to all that have contributed to the thread.

13. James
    Happiness Engineer
    Posted 6 years ago #

    For future reference, here is step 5, in detail, with screenshots:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Step_5:_Run_the_Install_Script

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