Hello,
I am so excited at the prospect of using Elegant Theme’s “Business Card”, which is the perfect, simple website design for promoting my small market research business; I am, however, at an impasse, which I fear may prevent me from becoming a customer.
I am attempting to manually, not automatedly (because my free hosting is not eligible for installing WordPress using “GoDaddy Hosting Connection”), install WordPress in the directory called “wordpress” of my Go-Daddy (LINUX) web host account. I downloaded and uploaded WordPress 3.4.2 zip file and then unzipped it using Go Daddy’s FTP server. I edited
the “wp-config sample” file to include my SQL Database Name, User Name,
and Password (please see below – shhh it’s a secret 🙂
My domain name is researchresource.biz. (Note: not .com)
1) Shouldn’t WordPress install itself after typing http://www.researchresource.biz/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php ?
2) Is there an easier-to-manually-install version than WordPress 3.4.2?
3) Will you quickly check the database server and also the syntax of the username and password in my “wp-config.php” script?
I sincerely appreciate your assistance. Let me know what other information you may need to assist.
Leda
ledas@earthlink.net
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at researchresource.db.9837656.hostedresource.com . This could mean your host’s database server is down.
Are you sure you have the correct username and password? Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname? Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums .
Here’s the details of the file named “wp-config.php” edited with my Go-Daddy specifics:
<?php
/**
* The base configurations of the WordPress.
*
* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information
* by visiting {@link http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
* wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
*
* This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
* installation. You don’t have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
* to “wp-config.php” and fill in the values.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘researchresource’);
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘researchresource’);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘Cu2izrcv*’);
/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘researchresource.db.9837656.hostedresource.com’);
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
/**#@+
* Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
*
* Change these to different unique phrases!
* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
* You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
*
* @since 2.6.0
*/
define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
/**#@-*/
/**
* WordPress Database Table prefix.
*
* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
*/
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
/**
* WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
*
* Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
* language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
* de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de_DE’ to enable German
* language support.
*/
define(‘WPLANG’, ”);
/**
* For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
*
* Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
* It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
* in their development environments.
*/
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);
/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);
