LyleChamney
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Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: New local WAMP Machine Error Establishing database connectionWhat you have done looks correct, but obviously isn’t 🙂
Were you using the WAMP default database user and password on the XP system? That is, root and empty (no password), OR did you create your own database user on the XP system? If so, you will have to do the same on the 8.1 db as well.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Just installed WP but can't log inYou need to set the nameservers for your domain name (on GoDaddy) to Bluehost.
… and here are a couple of guides on how to do just that 🙂
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Local host problemAre you able to view the local site if you enter the URL directly in another tab/window?
e.g.
http://localhost:8888/wordpressForum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Cannot install WordPress using XAMPPIf you change the port settings, then you have to add them to your URL.
e.g. IF you changed Apache to 8080, then your URL is:
http://localhost:8080/wordpressForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: from local to real host – always lose some setting3-export my local database and change all ” http://localhost/” string with “http://mysite.com/ with some text editor
After you have imported your local db into the new db you created on the host, use your host’s db tool (usually phpMyAdmin) to edit the
siteurlandhomefields of the wp_options table with your live site domain:http://mysite.comThen log into your site dashboard and install and run this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/
— select all options EXCEPT the last one (GUID)
Once that is done, go to:
Settings > Permalinks and Save.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to create the menu in wordpressThis is a great place to start:
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Set up and install questionsBonjour 🙂
A few questions:
– did you just buy this domain,
motomag.cavery recently? I ask because it shows as still being available for purchase, even though an online resource shows that GoDaddy is hosting it.– did you buy the hosting at the same time? If so, and also if the domain is purchased at the same time, the support at GD is correct in that it can take up to 48 hours for the combination to become available to the web. This is normal for all hosts, not just GD, and it is something that NONE of them mention in the sales literature 🙂
I also notice that the hosting account you purchased is a Windows hosting plan. Seeing as how you are just getting started with this, I would suggest that you have GD switch it over to a Linux with cPanel plan; you’ll find more support for this set up on this forum as well as others and you do not need to know anything about Linux to use it; it’s just that WP was designed to work with Linux.
The site links appears to be unavailable at the moment, but when I first checked, it showed a basic site that had no styling, so that means WP got installed at
motomag.ca/wordpress.With all this said, even with your current hosting plan, if that plan allows for more than one site to be hosted on it (that is, it is a Deluxe or Ultimate Plan), then just go ahead and use the one click WP installer again, but make SURE that the location is specified as the root of the hosting account. This is shown during the process where you specify the location (it defaults to
yourdomain.ca/wordpress); just remove the/wordpress.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Installed at godaddy…but now I am lostI built some years ago using a template based website building software…FrontPage
Which means that you more than likely have a Windows hosting account with FP extensions.
recently installed WordPress there at my godaddy hosting service. Its situated on the root drive where my other site sits.
although its been successfully installed at godaddy
If you are unable to access the WP site via the mentioned URLs, then you must have used the “auto installer” for WP available in your hosting control panel. As Ross mentioned, they generally, without user intervention, place it in a sub directory.
If you are certain that it has been installed in the root, then, using your hosting control panel file manager, have a look and confirm that there are these three folders in the root:
wp-admin
wp-content
wp-includesIf they are there, then indeed it has been installed in the root.
You will also then have a file there named either home.htm, home.html, index.htm or index.html. Temporarily rename this file to index_OLD.html for example and then try accessing your domain, e.g.
www.mydomain.comafter refreshing your browser. This should get you your WP site if the auto installer has placed it in the root.You can have both an HTML and a WP site installed in the root; I just verified on a local server where I placed one of my old FP sites (yes, I did that too! 🙂 and then placed the WP site files. The FP site will come up by going to the root URL but after renaming it, I was able to access the WP site.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Errors with WAMPI would perhaps suggest using another local server, such as Uniform Server, MAMP for Windows or XAMPP. I have used all three without any issues.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error establishing a database connectionlocalhost:8888
Looks as though you are running MAMP on a Mac. If so, did you:
– select phpMyAdmin from the MAMP start page ‘Tools’ menu to create a new, empty database using a name with no spaces in it?
– did you place all the WordPress files and folders from the extracted WP download package into Applications/MAMP/htdocs?If you did the above, you would start the install with:
http://localhost:8888… that’s it 🙂Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Installing New Theme – Images not showing upThe images you see in the theme repo are what you are able to do with the theme.
For the first two, click ON the image to see what the default theme will look like. The last one’s preview is showing it customized.
Best place to get more answers is to post to the theme’s support page.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Restoring Theme: Where do the old files go during updates?Can’t say for sure where they would have gone, but you just learned ‘the hard way’ why you want to create and use a child theme 🙂
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
That said, what comes to mind, if your XAMPP is on a Win machine, is to do a system restore to just before you updated the theme.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress database installationTry this plugin: Adminer
https://wordpress.org/plugins/adminer/
This will create a database export (dump) that you can then import into your hosted database.
Once installed and activated, it will be under the Tools menu.
– select Adminer
– click ‘Start Adminer insider’ or ‘Start Adminer in new tab’
– in the left sidebar, click ‘Dump’
– in ‘Output’, select ‘Save’
– make sure ‘Format’ is ‘SQL’
– click ‘Export’
– an SQL file will be saved to wherever your downloads are savedThis is the file that will be imported into the new, empty database that you will create on your web host.
Once you import it, you will need to edit the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ fields of the wp_options table with your live, website domain name, e.g.:
http://www.my_domain.comThat’s the ‘database part’ 🙂
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: "Error Establishing Database Connectionit was a wordpress.com site
And WhoIsHostingThis.com confirms 🙂
As such, a different approach is required. Have a read through this article for more info:
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: "Error Establishing Database ConnectionI think we’re getting somewhere 🙂
I should have asked whether it was MAMP for Mac or Win now that there are both.
The only difference is the default port for Apache: 8888 for Mac and 80 for Win. Therefore, in my above example, you would leave out the :8888 from the URLs.
I just have a standard Business WordPress website via wordpress, it isn’t hosted anywhere else.
Does this mean it is at WordPress.COM? If so. that is another kettle of fish! 🙂
WP.COM is where you can set up a site without installing WP. This forum, and what you are installing on your MAMP install is the software from WordPress.ORG.
This explains the difference:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Please provide a URL for the site you are trying to transfer (if you can) as this will go a long way in getting it sorted for you 🙂