Title: Install Questions
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Install Questions

 *  [bethany5a4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethany5a4/)
 * (@bethany5a4)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-questions-2/)
 * I downloaded wordpress. I changed the the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.
   php.
 * Now, when making changes:
    “define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);// The name of the
   database” Does this mean I should name my database “wordpress” when I create 
   it? My host (godaddy.com) doesn’t give me the option of naming my database, it
   only shows my username.
 * Anyway, I created a mysql database. I uploaded the contents of the wordpress 
   folder to my hosting account, in the root directory. I went to [http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php](http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php)(
   with my site’s name in place of “example”, of course). There’s nothing there.
   What am I missing?
 * Do I need to upload anything to the mysql database? I can’t really even figure
   out what it does.
 * Thanks

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 *  [bestfoot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bestfoot/)
 * (@bestfoot)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-questions-2/#post-325128)
 * Hi Bethany,
 * I don’t know GoDaddy well for hosting. If they give you one mySQL database and
   name it “username” then what you need to put in the config file is “username”
   for the database name. Then you will use your username and password (probably
   the same as your godaddy username and password I suspect with the way you are
   explaining things. You can put more than one thing in your database so long as
   you use a prefix that is unique for each. If this is all that you are putting
   in there, then you can use the wp_ that is already there. I have this theory 
   that you are always best to use something else though just to be unique.
 * So the answer is yes the name of your database is presumably “username”. The 
   install will then put the proper tables in the database and prefix those table
   names with either wp_ or whatever you substitute for that.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-questions-2/#post-325128)
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