belle116 – are you using Cpanel or Plesk or vDeck ? If so, there are guides for each here : http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/
no – at least not that i know that …
I work with windows xp, got installed php 5.1 and mysql (to be honest: not exactly knowing if i could use it 🙁 )
belle – are you installing onto a website, or into your computer ?
On the website… should I do it onto the computer? (sorry…. feel pretty “unskilled”)
as far as I opent the file /wp-admin/install.php i on my computer I get the “cryptical stuff” (see my long post from 16:53:59)
As I told earlier: you do NOT need to install php and/or mysql on your computer. All that “stuff” should be on your server already installed by the host. (If they don’t have it – move to a decent host.)
What do you use to ftp the files to your server?
Do you have a database set up for you? Is there any user interface for administering your website?
Ah <sigh>
go back to my post where I said “Follow the Installation instructions”.
Read it here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#Installation
and if you need help after reading it, please, post back!
yeah – i read it and still got trouble – maybee I am only a very stupid little girl (that’s how I feel the longer I do that)
do I have to “2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.”
because before it said that I needn’t mysql
It says on your web server – not on your computer. And a user in the mysql database, also on the server.
So back to the basics: do you have a databse set up for your hosting account? Or, can you create one through the admin panel of your website?
oh ok – i got it… (late…)
i have to negate both: I can’t create a database. But a “service-man” told me by questening about “blogin” that I only have to put online the css-files. which (what i see now) has not so very much to do with qhat I really questiones)
Am I right that there has to be category in my panel about “creating a database” or something like that?
Some host let you create your database(s), other will create it for you, and in this case they have to give you the 4 pieces of info needed for the wp-config.php file.
Don’t ask about “blogging” – tell them you need a database :), more exaclty a MySQL database.
ok. i’ call them tomorrow.
if they say, they don’t support a database – do I have another (ANY) chance to get it going?
THANK YOU SO MUCH and so far. See ya tomorrow (nice sites – by the way)
Thanks for trying to help me. I just don’t know enough to continue to play with WordPress, so I am turning to an easier java package.
Hello, geniuses. This may be a dopey question, but I just — I mean *just* — signed up with a new domain name and a new host, created a db, downloaded WP, edited the config file and uploaded everything.
My domain hasn’t propagated yet. I can view my site by going to the IP address of the server.
Should I wait until the domain propagates before running the install script? Is the script going to write stuff that needs the domain name?
Thanks. — clueless in hollywood
