Nothing appears in my Phpmyadmin database, but filezilla says it uploaded it.

Something will only appear in the database after you run the install script at domain.com/wp-admin/install.php

Have you run that step yet?

fonglh right. you must do so before the database being inserted.
Anyway, on Filezila, you should see any failed transfer at the bottom of the application (by default).

if you still have problems with filezilla ( i used to have problems with filezilla in windows vista) try coffeecup free ftp

Just upload wordpress as a tar or zip to your rootfolder.
Then you’re sure that all files are copied.

Then just untar it like this:

tar -xzvf nametarfile.tar.gz'

or with unzip:

unzip namezipfile.zip’

then just change wp-settings-sample.php to wp-settings.php like so:
mv wp-settings-sample.php wp-settings.php

change the details that need to be changed in that same file and run the install.php from the website

hope this helped

All that needs to be done is what fonglh says, and that is to install WordPress once you have uploaded it.

Perhaps these instructions will help:

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

these reponses helped a lot. I got it working a minute ago. I am on a massive leaning curve here. cheers.