Dotster.com install walkthrough

Dotster.com WordPress setup walkthrough
Assumptions: domain name purchased and webspace set up such that if you put an index.html file in the root directory of the website, it would be readable.
1. Get the latest version of WordPress and upload it to the webspace root folder of the domain.
2. Set up a database on Dotster.com.
a. Login, –>My Services, –>Manage Services
b. Click Webspace, click Databases, click Add new database
c. In “new database info” name the database, “where first 10 symbols is an unique prefix” something like “db1026933_”. For our example, I named it WordPressBlog
d. Do not click “allow access from external hosts”
e. Enter a username. Our example it’ll be “Julie”
f. Enter a username password. It’s blocked, but in the wp-config file it’s clear. Let’s use “WPPassword”
g. Click on the new database name.
h. Jot down the “internal hostname”, which is something like “db84int.dotsterhost.com”
3. Read this page: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress
4. Edit the wp-config.php file, like our example with the following information. Dotster is one of the 1% that makes you change the DB_HOST. And, NO Dotster doesn’t tell you that anywhere on their site. Thanks for nothing!
5. Upload the wp-config.php file that you just edited and overwrite the version that shipped with your WordPress version sitting there.
6. Run the install
wp-config.php file: EDIT AS FOLLOWS (using your info)
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘db1026933_ WordPressBlog ‘); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘u1026933_Julie’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘WPPassword’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘db84int.dotsterhost.com’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

PERMISSIONS FOR DOTSTER: If something isn’t working, try changing permissions to 777 or 666, for editing theme files and permalinks and for directories accessed by plug-ins. For some functions, like permalinks you have to create a text file called “.htaccess” and upload that to the wordpress directory and give it permissions of 666. You may also want to create an “uploads” folder and give it permissions 777, which seems to be all that works on Dotster.