Web matrix is a strange host for the wordpress site as it uses windows PHP and windows MySQL.
You should continue to go through the install. If it is already installed it will only overwrite the information you have.
Once you have it installed you will need to run the webmatrix program. select the wordpress folder then use thye ‘run’ button at the top left of the page.
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KenjiK
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Thanks for your help datasoftict. I don’t know how WebMatrix got into the install process – it just appeared at the end. I’ve also got conflicting indications of whether I’m installed or not. The ‘Congratulations!’ window indicated that I have “successfully installed” WordPress, Microsoft WebMatrix, PHP 5.2.17 for WebMatrix, MySQL Windows 5.1 and eleven other products. However, http://localhost:36955 opens a webpage for installing WordPress (which I interpret as an indication that installation has not yet taken place). I think you’re saying that I should ignore the ‘Congratulations!’ and do another installation by following the prompts on the webpage opened by http://localhost:36955.
The congratulations is for installing all the server programs.
To install WordPress itself, you have to fill in those fields, but first you have to setup a database account for wordpress to use.
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KenjiK
(@kenjik)
Thanks fonglh. I think I set up the database correctly. That step required me to fill in Database Administrator Password etc and took place immediately before the ‘Congratulations!’ window appeared. I supppose that, when I do the second installation of WordPress, I’ll be required to set up another database as part of that installation process. Maybe I’ll therefore end up with two databases.
Did that step also require you to create a database? That’s different from setting up a database administrator account.
WordPress asks you for the information to connect to the database you’ve created manually. It then populates the database with the necessary tables.
As fonglh says, you only need to create one database, it is the connection to the database you set up within the wordpress setup.
I think that the http://localhost:36955 you are using is a non webmatrix, direct via web host connection as the number is a port number, so apache or IIS is looking to that port to run something. If webmetrix was setup then use the webmatrix interface. If you mix the two then some parts of the process may be missed out. I have no idea what webmatrix actually does – beside use a load of disk space – but if you have installed wordpress via the webmatrix route then it has installed IIS not apache and it’s own versions of mysql and php (as you pointed out) but also probably sets them up to use in a non-standartd way. For example Mysql usually sits on port 3306, webmatrix could have linked it to port 3308 or any other one it fancied.
If you are using webmatrix then as far as I know you may be able to go into the wordpress folder by looking in the inetpub/wwwroot directory, but yet again, only if webmatrix set thet directory up as the web ‘root’.
I have webmatrix, I loaded as a way to help on another query on this forum and I hate it. It was supposed to do everything I needed but all it has done is loaded a whole load of rubbish and screwed up my working Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP setup. But my wordpress install works!
I have just dusted of my webmatrix and run the wordpress install.
As with you my ‘site’ is linked to a localhost port.
Open webmatrix and open the wordpress site. If your setup is the same as mine click the requests tag yop left. This shows a screen with all the http requests you make. Click capture requests.
Next go to the home page and click run. See what comes up. Go back to the requests page and watch out for any errors.
If nothing happens there then use the file listsing to go to wp-admim/install.php and run it in browser (from a right click).
My version of wordpress uses a database, but no databse is shown in the menu so claerly something is wrong! I think that the settings will be within a windows registry file somewhere and almost anything can happen if webmatrix is not setup as it should be.
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KenjiK
(@kenjik)
Thank you datasoftict! I followed the steps you outlined and ended up with a screen in my web browser that required me to enter Site Title, Username and Password. At the bottom of the screen was the button ‘Install WordPress’, which is what has been confusing me from the start because I had already installed WordPress. Anyway, clicking that button produced a Success! screen (which appeared instantly, which I assume meant that WordPress was already installed). The Success! screen required Log In, which I did and that produced Dashboard (which is what I’d been wanting to get to all along). So, thanks to you and thanks to fonglh too for your help.
