Not going to finishing the installation

You say you can’t get it to install WordPress, but what happens? We need details. What kind of error are you getting? You say you replace myblogdomain.com with your website address but are you replacing “installationdirectory” with the name of the directory that contains the WP files? It would be helpful to have your URL and the name of the directory you’re installing into.

The exact address I’m typing in is https://www.nicolechatham.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php. Every time I do, it says “HTTP 404 Not Found.” I put “blog” in place of the installation directory because I downloaded the folder with the wordpress contents that I extracted to the public html folder. What else do I need to do?

I put “blog” in place of the installation directory because I downloaded the folder with the wordpress contents that I extracted to the public html folder.

blog/ is NOT public_html

the ROOT of your web site is in public_html

the index.php that is responsible for this page:

https://www.nicolechatham.com/index.php is inside public_html

determine what directory you uploaded wordpress to, and then use THAT as the installationdirectory variable youre trying to figure out.

Okay, on Firezilla, I went to “Site Manager” and entered in my FTP info. I dropped the renamed “blog” folder in the “public_html” link. Now, when you click on “public_html” a subfolder pops up with the word “blog” then a subfolder underneath pops up called “wordpress”. All the contents are in the “wordpress” folder. I tried the directory ” https://www.nicolechatham.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php” and it still won’t work.

thats right.

because according to what you just wrote, its here:

blog/wordpress/

2 directories down.

blog is a directory within public_html
wordpress is a directory within blog

consequently this is where it is:

https://www.nicolechatham.com/blog/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

Hopefully you understand why now, after looking at your files.

Assuming you dont want it there, you probably want to move those files and directories OUT of the wordpress directory, and up one level into the blog directory.

Okay, when I clicked on that link, this is what it gave me:

Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.

What now?

have you actually read the readme.html or anything remotely resembling any documentation?

https://www.nicolechatham.com/blog/wordpress/readme.html

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress

Im really not trying to be rude, but if you plan on doing this you need to atleast try. :<

If you dont know what you are doing, pay someone to do it, or see if install4free can help.

Well, I don’t mean to sound like a complete ditz but I’m almost there! I’m working from CPanel and in the MYSQL, I created a user (with all privaleges) “nicole” and a database “wordpress”. It gave me afterwords, the username “nicol_nicole” and the database “nicol_wordpress” and I created a password for it. I opened the sample config from the “blog” folder through Jarte and entered:
‘DB_NAME’, ‘nicol_wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘nicol_nicole’); // Your MySQL username
as well as my password and left the host “localhost”. I saved it. So it’s saying “This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect “. Am I doing something wrong?

no, youre doing awesome ??

this should help immensely

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_cPanel#Connection_Information

actually, you prolly want to start at the top of that page..

okay, in cpanel, I created the database “wordpress” but the size is only .01MB, which I’m assuming that means that there’s nothing in the database. Because it’s under Blog, then WordPress (as mentioned above), do I need to change the name of the database to be able to connect the two? I think that’s where my problem is because the username, database, password, and host that I’m typed in are correct.

Because it’s under Blog, then WordPress (as mentioned above), do I need to change the name of the database to be able to connect the two?

No. The location of the files themselves has nothing to do with the database or the connection details.

So, if I added the database “nicol_wordpress”, added the user “nicol_nicole” (with all privalages), verifyed the localhost, created a password, entered the information in Jarte, renamed it wp-config.php, and saved it in the folder, what could be the problem?

the questions you see on the page sum those possibilities up.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

how do I check if the database server is running?

youre on shared hosting? its running.