Was I suppose to load the program to the root directory without any folder?

  • I’m using FrontPage to manage my mydomain database. I set it up for Frontpage support and it has been working correctly in that capacity.

    This is the first time I have tried to load a database. The domain server says everything is ready and I configured the wp-config.php file and then loaded WordPress to the server, all of it in a folder called wordpress. Was I suppose to load it without any folder? When I attempt to install I keep getting that Error establishing a database connection message.

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  • You can put the WP files either in the Root, or in a subfolder. If you put it in a subfolder then that folder is the address of your blog unless you take special steps described in the Codex (like if you want WP in a folder but you want the address to be the root, or vice versa).

    One issue I’m not sure about is Frontpage. I know that you do not want to design WP pages in the Frontpage program! It’s bad. But I’m not sure whether having Frontpage to manage your domain is a problem or not. If you can do without, I would do without that and just use WP.

    The issue with database-connection Error, is usually you haven’t got the right variables in your wp-config, and/or you don’t have a database set up. Make sure of database name, login, password

    hope this helps

    Thread Starter laganrat

    (@laganrat)

    Thank you very much. Well, the data base is set up and it sounds like the subfolder location is not an issue, so I’ll check my configuration.

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