NEWBIE – Error establishing a database connection

Your hosted site and your MAMP install are completely different. What you put on the MAMP install is going to be accessible only from your local area network– aka., stuff in your house :). You need to install WordPress on you host to have it visible on the web. So which are we working on?

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Thanks so much for getting back to me. That would make sense! I get so confused with it all. I have now apparently installed a wordpress app on my host. Do I still need to download the wordpress files or are they there on my wordpress site somewhere? I can’t find them, I am going to try and follow this tutorial on creating a wordpress site from html one i’m done with all this setting up. should I go to step 3 in the codex istallation guide and set up wp-config.php or is this already done for me now?

apparently it’s all installed. so then how to access all these files that have been installed (the ones that i would have downloaded from www.ads-software.com and installed manually, that include wp-config.php)

What is your domain name? I really can’t answer most of your questions without it.

I would strongly recommend developing your site on the MAMP server and then uploading to your host. That way, you always have a backup of the source code and, well, you will break stuff as you work. You may as well break things privately.

This is my domain https://www.denotestationery.com/wordpress/
I managed to figure it out and get it going through my host. I’m basically trying to transfer my old site of https://www.denotestationery.com to wordpress so most of the code is already there. Just need to add php to it. (which I have no idea about, what you see at the moment is where i just followed the tutorial I linked previously). I am working in a subdirectory for the time being until Im ready to switch over fully.

this is probably a silly question but If I work through MAMP will I still be able to work through the wordpress interface like I have been doing remotely?
And would I have to delete the template I have created so far before I upload from MAMP?

Thanks in advance ??

FYI I only managed to create index.php in wordpress so far. links through to other pages are to my old html website (i’m sure you know that anyway ??

this is probably a silly question but If I work through MAMP will I still be able to work through the wordpress interface like I have been doing remotely?

Yes, but not on the same database. Your MAMP would be a kind of dummy database. You wouldn’t want to bother creating the real content there. Just use it to tweak your theme and such.

And would I have to delete the template I have created so far before I upload from MAMP?

You would copy the theme you’ve created so far to MAMP. After that you’d just upload the changes to the theme from MAMP to the hosted server.

Thanks for your help. Just fund out that wordpress file are not compatable with my version of MAMAP. This version is only compatable with my operating platform. So if i were to upgrade to the latest platform i will have to upgrade my Imac and my CS suite! Looks like i am going to have to start saving! Very frustrating ?? I dont suppose there is a old version on wordpress i can use to use with my MAMP?

There is a release archive but you may find that things work on MAMP and don’t work on your server, or the other way around. It wouldn’t recommend it.

Yes I understand. Thanks so much for your help. Im in the right direction now anyway.