I have Installed WordPress Locally. Is this the next Step?

Do you have a domain? Do you have a hosting account? Do your domain nameservers point to your host’s nameservers?

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Do you have a domain? Do you have a hosting account? Do your domain nameservers point to your host’s nameservers?

Yes I have a domain, Yes my web host has PHP installed. Do my domain nameservers point to my host’s nameservers? I am not sure. What do you mean by that?

I followed this tutorial
https://www.macminicolo.net/videos/ServerVideo9.mov

Everything went very well. The tutorial was about installing WordPress locally on your mac using MAMP, and in the tutorial we ran the “WP Famous Five Minute Install”. Now WordPress runs well on my computer now but where do I go from here? Sorry for the dumb questions.

You need to talk to your hosting company to determine their name servers, then visit your domain registrar and point your domain’s name servers to your host’s name servers.

Then install WordPress on your host’s computer (see Installing WordPress.

If you continue this thread, please provide this information:
1. name of your hosting company
2. name of your properly registerd domain (e.g. mydomain.com)

You need to talk to your hosting company to determine their name servers, then visit your domain registrar and point your domain’s name servers to your host’s name servers.

Why do i need to do this, if the website is already up and running. When I first registered the domain I had to do that so what does that have to do with a Blog?

I followed the tutorial above and installed a Database locally on my mac so can’t I just drag the MAMP folder into the “Root” folder of my website and it should work. I don’t need to setup the database on the web hosts server do I?

If you continue this thread, please provide this information:
1. name of your hosting company
2. name of your properly registerd domain (e.g. mydomain.com)

If you continue this thread, please provide this information:
1. name of your hosting company
2. name of your properly registerd domain (e.g. mydomain.com)

OK, sorry, I can’t give the domain as the company I’m working for has put me under a NDA for now, but the hosting company is called “Telus”.

My web server has phpMyAdmin installed, and they have a tool to install PHP into your Public folder.

Since I already installed PHP locally on my computer using MAMP can I not just drag the folder containing PHP into my Public folder on their server?

Installing WordPress on your local computer has NOTHING to do with installing WordPress on your host’s computer.

Please follow the directions as described in Installing WrodPress and install WordPress on your hosting environment.

Ok, I spent all day trying to install this silly thing. I got my database done on my server, then the mySQL done and followed the “5 minute install as close as I could.

Then I pasted the URL https://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php and I got this Error.

“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 sq15c0a.megasqlservers.com. 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.”

I’m pretty much done with trying to install WP. I mean it’s too bad there is so many passwords and things you need to do just to get it going. I think I will stick with my website instead.

Darn I wanted a Blog….. Sigh

I have create guide about install wordpress locally, start from install required tools (wampserver and email server) then pointing it to fake domain (might be you’re future domain in real world). Next step to make it online is dumping the sql and import to your hosting company.

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I have create guide about install wordpress locally, start from install required tools (wampserver and email server) then pointing it to fake domain (might be you’re future domain in real world). Next step to make it online is dumping the sql and import to your hosting company.

Alamster, hi, I am sorry I don’t quite understand you. Are you saying you have a guide you made on installation. I did install WP locally first on my mac and it was very easy, but then to get it on my server was a whole different story. I wonder if it ewas so much easier to install locally for me if it wouldn’t be easier for me to just use my own server and buy the webspace.

How do you install WP locally and then put it out to the world on the internet?

I get the same error message as Paint Guy no matter what I have tried so far. I wish there was a resolution on this so that I could follow it and resolve the issue. I am also using Telus.