First WP installation attempt. DB error.

  • bellevegasj

    (@bellevegasj)


    16 years, 6 months ago

    Hello. I’m installing this for the first time on a GoDaddy account and I’m running into mysql issues. First Q; localhost. Do I need to change that to the website name or something? I’m pretty sure that it should be setup as localhost. I changed the utf8 to utf8_unicode_ci to match what GoDaddy is using.

    Do I need to provide any other information?

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    “Do I need to provide any other information?” – database name, user name, password need to be specified correctly in the wp-config.php file.

    I’ve always been happier with the results of installing WordPress from http://wordpress.org/download/ using the instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
    Than with any web host’s install script, e.g. – Fantastico.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    godaddy does not use ‘localhost’
    they use something similar to
    p50.secureserver.net and others
    look in your DB Manager at godaddy for correct info

    diamonddread

    (@diamonddread)

    16 years, 6 months ago

    hi I RECENTLEY MOVED MY WEBSITE FROM ON HOST TO THE OTHER I HAVE A BACK UP OF MY DATABASE I USE GO DADDY HOSTING I REPLACED THE ALREADY INSTALLED WP FILES WITH THE ONES FROM MY OLD PUBLIC HTML.

    I AM GETTING ERROR CONNECTING TO DATA BASE I TRIED TO CHANGE THE URL STRINGS BUT SOME HOW IT DOES’T SEEM TO WORK. nO I ACCENDIENTALLY CHANGED MY WP FILES AND PUBLIC HTML TO NOTE PAD FILES. YES VERY FUSTRTAION INDEED WHEN i CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THEM BACK TO
    THE ORIGINALS.

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