"5 Minute" Installation

  • Hello,

    I’m having some troubles (and I’ll likely have many more ^^) installing WordPress.

    After downloading the installation, I find that the wp-admin/install.php doesn’t work in either Internet Explorer or Firefox.

    So I tried opening it with notepad and editing the fields. The trouble is, the fields I am required to fill in do not match the information I was given from my host InMotion pertaining to my server name, host name, etc.

    In an email from my host I was given:

    domain
    username
    password
    server
    hostname
    tempurl
    etc.

    but I was not given info (that I can tell) that pertains directly to the .php setup.

    1) Which fields do I fill in, in the php file?

    2) How come it looks like most of the stuff to file in is commented out to start with?

    Thanks for any help!

    Mike

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  • The fields in wp-config.php refer to the MySQL database name, hostname, username, and password. Some hosts will set these up for you and give you the credentials. Some provide ways for you to set it up yourself. I don’t know how it works in your case. In short, you need to find out what your MySQL connection information is.

    Most of the lines in wp-config are commented. It is a configuration file. There is a lot of descriptive text.

    After downloading the installation, did you upload it to your host?

    You can get by without editing any php files. Let the install process create the wp-config.php file for you.

    Thread Starter l_ekim

    (@l_ekim)

    Thanks! It has been uploaded to my host… All is good now in that regard. Now starts the real work!

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