admin/ .htaccess

it wont let me login on firefox

If you saved your username/password in Firefox, try deleting it via Tools/Options/Security/Saved Passwords in case you saved an incorrect version.

You say you installed WordPress in your root folder? Can you just confirm the name of this folder via FTP? Is it public_html? I’m wondering if you inadvertently installed WP somewhere else.

in my root folder i have the following:

/.cpanel
/.trash
/access-logs
/tmp
/wordpress-2.8.6
/.lastlogin

the .lastlogin is a file not a folder.

Okay, you should have another folder called public_html or www…

But esmi nailed it, you put WP in a non-web folder, so it wouldn’t work, regardless.

If you’re logged in via FTP, change your view to show hidden files. If you’re logged in via SSH type ls -la and see if that shows you more?

alright. logged in via FTP and showed all hidden files and it didnt reveal anything more than what i had already said was in my root folder.

so should i put the WP files in a folder in the root called public_html?

I’d check with your webhost to ask WHERE you’re supposed to put web files, since you don’t have a public_html folder. That’s sort of standard.

A normal setup looks like this.

/.cpanel
/.trash
/access-logs
/tmp
/public_html
/public_ftp
/.lastlogin

so would you recommend putting the /wordpress-2.8.6 in the /public_html ?

ok so ive seen some light, but not enough to see.

i have now made my root folder like te normal setup above.

i guess the trouble im having now is in the wp-config.php file

i made it a .txt to edit it, and i think my problem is what my “database” name is.

so would you recommend putting the /wordpress-2.8.6 in the /public_html ?

Yes but.

There’s a but here.

I don’t know if your webhost is normal. Or set up to the standards I’m used to. So I’d ask first.

i made it a .txt to edit it, and i think my problem is what my “database” name is.

No. You need it to be .php. You can open .php in notepad. Don’t go changing the extensions, it’ll just screw you up more later. Trust me ?? Always keep the extensions the same unless directions SPECIFICALLY tell you to change them.

Go here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions

Read Step 2: Create the Database and a User

That should get you started with a database (aka a DB).

sorry for being such a pest.

i created the database and a user/password.

Users in wordpress
theowler_wordpre (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

    Connection Strings
    Perl 	$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:theowler_wordpress:localhost",
    "theowler_wordpre","<PASSWORD HERE>");
    PHP 	$dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "theowler_wordpre",
    "<PASSWORD HERE>") or die('Cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db ("theowler_wordpress");

since i dont have phpMyAdmin in my CPanel what should i use?

From https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

putyourdbnamehere will be theowler_wordpress

usernamehere will be theowler_wordpre

yourpasswordhere will be … your password ??

Leave localhost alone.

wonderful!

ive gotten the 5 minute install.

now i think i only have two questions left and i will be out of your hair.

https://www.theowler.com doesnt work, but https://www.theowler.com/wordpress/ does.

and second, how can i change and edit a wordpress theme in dreamweaver and then upload it to my webhost?

1. See https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

2. Personally I don’t think that Dreamweaver is the right tool for WP theme development as you won’t be able to review your changes. However, you’ll either need to configure Dreamweaver to upload your amended files via FTP or use another FTP client.

You’ll be able to use DreamWeaver for only basic text editing and (I think?) FTPing those files.

Try Notepad++ instead for text editing ?? It’s free.

i have it set up in dreamweaver. all i need to know is if i do use a theme, do i just have to upload it to the webhost and replace the files and folders already in the /wordpress folder?

i have seemed to fail yet again….

i went here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

i updated the WP blog address on the admin screen,
put all the WP core files in the public_html folder

but when it came time to change the index.php and .htaccess file and put it on the webhost, i got a 500 internal error on the site.

any thoughts?