Roy
(@gangleri)
1) You need to have a database before you can install WP, since it seems you got up WP alright, the database is probably there;
2) Because you need to unzip the download?;
3) Same as 1; you had to edit it before installation. The wp-config file is to make WP able to pull information out of your database;
4) If you want to install WP locally, read here. It’s probably easier to put the whole site behind an htaccess password which you can remove when you’re done or find some kind of maintenance plugin.
Many thanks for a quick response!
Follow up question:
– WHAT type of information is wp-config supposed to pull out of WHAT database, assuming that all data are on the Webhost’s server in the first place?
Thanks again.
Roy
(@gangleri)
I don’t know how your (automatic?) installation process went, but surely the database is on the server of your host. When doing a manual installation in the control panel/PHPmyAdmin/whatever you create a database, asign a user and password to it and put that information in the wp-config. During installation process WP will fill the database with the necessary tables and your posts, comments, etc. will be stored there and pulled out when requested by a webbrowser.
That’s the process, it seems that in your case some parts went automatically.
I am a clean sheet starter and have no posts and comments yet.
But your comment implicitly suggests that one is supposed to work from the local PC and then upload to the server?
Roy
(@gangleri)
Ehm, no it doesn’t…
If I understood you correctly, you have your blog up and running, so I guess you have the “Hello World” post visible. This can only have succeeded if the installation process went correctly, including the creation of the database and the editing of the wp-config file.
Now you can go and write posts, etc., but you probably want to do something about the design, functionality, etc. first. Since the blog is up, I’d ‘hide it’ by putting it behind an htaccess password (either doing this manually or use a maintenance mode plugin) and start working until everything is fine.
You can make things the way you want locally, but that means a complete installation on your PC including a database, etc. If that’s finished, you still need to install WP on your host, upload the theme you edited and maybe even export/import the posts that you want to use.
You CAN work locally first, but setting that up is quite a job, so the other option is easier.
I agree with Gangleri. While you can work locally, it is much easier to do it all on the server.
If you have bluehost, just use Simple Scripts to install it. It will make things easier for you, it will create the database and edit the wp-config.php file for you. Naturally, after the installation, your blog will have nothing on it but the standard Hello World post, but you can edit it and make your changes starting from there.
So we all agree that everything is in place. Thanks for your comments.
On ‘htaccess’: WP links to a ‘tutorial’ (Clockwaters) that is perfect abacradabra for me.
Any tips on a simple online tutorial on this elswhere?
Roy
(@gangleri)
It’s not that hard, but you can just to for a plugin.
E.G. One site recommends this: “Simply cut and paste the following into the <body> tags of your page.” (This refers to a simple password script).
Where would I find the “Body tag”?
Gangleri: many thanks for the link, looks like exactly what I need.
However: how to upload, or rather: WHERE to?
WP says: “To install a plugin you generally just need to upload the plugin file into your /home7/crunchre/public_html/wp-content/plugins directory.”
Where is that?
A said: I have not installed anything anywhere on my local PC and in the blogserver I do not find this path.
I guess I still am doing something very wrong here.
Roy
(@gangleri)
Do you have FTP access or does your control panel/PHPmyAdmin/whatever have an upload functionality? Plugins go in the wp-content/plugins folder like you said.
Also if you’re going to add themes, plugins (that’s definately going to happen), etc. you’ll need to get them on your server with the rest of the WP files.
Gangleri, first of all: many thanks for being so patient with me.
My (FileZilla) blogserver page only shows the following folders on de Host server side:
– main: /
– subfolder: incoming
Thats all.
Probably I am logged in in a wrong way?
Roy
(@gangleri)
That doesn’t look right. You should see some folders including one called public or httpdocs or something. Can you click through the folders that you see?
Btw. I’m offline now (end of working day), hopefully you’ll be able to figure it out. FTP’ing seems to work, perhaps you can just contact your host to find out how you get to your files.
Good luck!
Roy
Just found the ‘import’ function of PHPmyadmin.
Can I upload through this?
Upload what?
The database (and the tool that lets you work with it = phpMyadmin) has NOTHING to do with the files, which are uploaded via FTP.
