what username and password to use?

Clayton,
I’ll keep working on this process. Hopefully I can get it done right. I appreciate all of your help. I’m sorry that I can’t understand all of these instructions. Thanks.

Bob, If your latest efforts prove to be unfruitful, as a last resort please feel free to contact me via the contact form on my site (accessed via my profile link).

I have installed WordPress countless times, I’d be happy to connect to your webhost & set it up for you free of charge.

Hopefully it’ll all click into place and work for you, but if not, the offers there.

numeeja,
I’m going to try to redo the database settings on my control panel, and then redo the settings in the wp-config.php file and put it into the subdirectory of my site in place of the current one. I’m hoping that these changes will enable the browser to install the database. I understand that I will then be able to select a new user name and password for my blog and begin to use it and configure its various operations. I appreciate your offer. I’ll let you know what happens as a result of my further efforts. Thanks.

numeeja,
I made the above changes and tried to run the install script, but I got this error message:

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 localhost. 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 sure that the settings are OK and the hostname is “localhost”, so I don’t know what is causing this problem. What should I try next?

numeeja,
I changed the user name from bobs75 to “admin”, but then I got this message when I tried to run the install script:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_admin() in /home/bobs75/public_html/blog/wp-admin/includes/comment.php on line 162

So the database is not getting installed. This is very frustrating. What should I try next?

numeeja,
I can’t get the link to your website in your profile to work. I’m up a creek without a paddle.

numeeja,
I have removed the files from the subdirectory of my site and from the folders for my site documents. I have also deleted the database from my control panel. This puts me back at square one in regard to whether or not I install a WP database blog onto my website. I’m not sure whether I’m going to do this. I’ve been having some new problems with my WS_FTP program since I tried to get this new program to work. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the problems, but I don’t like new problems. Since I can’t get the link to your website to work. I don’t know how you can help me. I’ve got pages of instructions, but I can’t get anything to work. Anyway, thanks for your offer.

1. Unzip the package in an empty directory.
2. Open up wp-config-sample.php with a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection details.
3. Save the file as wp-config.php
4. Upload everything.
5. Open /wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can gather.
6. Note the password given to you.
7. The install script should then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change the password.
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sorry but i didn’t get what is step 4 means, i’m just a bit confused , can anyone help me? i would be grateful

numeeja,
I can’t get the link to your website in your profile to work.

OK try https://www.cubecolour.co.uk/contact/

Hi Shervin,
I’ve seen your list of instructions before in Codex, and they are somewhat confusing. In regard to #2, I have a text editor, HTML Kit, that handles my web files very well. This instruction doesn’t clearly indicate what exact user name and password that I should put into the wp-config-sample.php file. I think that my MySQL account program for the database that I start is suppose to furnish this information to me, but I don’t see that it does. This is where I begin to get confused. I understand that if the right user name and password are not cited in the wp-config.php file the program can not run the install script.

I understand #4 to mean that I need to upload all of the WP files to the remote server for my website, where I plan to put them in a subdirectory called “blog”.

I can’t get step 5 to work in a normal fashion. The initial time that it did finally install my database, I was able to sign in, as in step 7, with the user name “admin” and the password. I was then given the option to change my password, but I was not given any option to change the user name from “admin” to something else. This was the initial cause of my problems with this program.

I’m hesitant to go through all of these steps again to try to install a database that leaves me with the “admin” user name, which is not good.

numeeja, I’m not sure how you can help me indirectly. The link you cited takes me to a site for a Content Management System from WP. I don’t want to use WP as my CMS. I only want to use it for a subordinate blog on my established website. How could you “connect” to my “webhost” to set up a database for me? I think that has to be done on my computer from my files.

Everyday I see numerous postings on the WP Forum from individuals who are having trouble installing a database. Apparently the “five minute” install isn’t as easy it as some “instructors” make it out to be. I’m waiting for some additional clear instructions for a process that will work. Thanks for your additional suggestions.

Bob, I don’t understand from your posts what you are doing and why it is going wrong. Rather than posting more instructions which you will probably be unable to follow and cause you more frustration, I have offered to connect to your host, set up a database, upload the correct files to the correct place and install WordPress (& maybe provide some documentation is there is anything extra to be done if there is anything unusual about your web host preventing a standard installation from succeeding). I don’t often offer to do this kind of thing free of charge as this is something I do as part of my business.

The site I linked above is my contact form, to enable you to send me some details to enable me to perform the set up for you if you want to take me up on the offer.

numeeja,
There seems to be a big misunderstanding among us in this thread. I am simply trying to install a WP database blog in a subdirectory of the remote server for my website. I haven’t been able to get the install.php script to normally install the database, and it seems to lock me into the “admin” user name.

I don’t think that there is anything unusual about the servers that are used by my host. They are Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix). They also provide the PHP version 4.4.4 and MySQL version 4.0.27 software programs. My host does not provide its clients with any support or assistance in installing outside scripts, so I can’t get any help from them. Their server and its software is just set up to implement the correct files from their clients.

I still don’t know how you would access my host and my control panel to install the necessary files onto my computer. What specific “details” do you need to do this? I would be glad to pay a local technician to come to my office and install the WP database in “five minutes” if my usual technician could do this. I don’t think that he can do this. So I’m somewhat dependent upon distant technical persons to give me the clear instructions for this process. I would still like to add a blog to my website, but I don’t know how to do it. Thanks for your offer, but I would like to know exactly how you would do this from your distant computer.

Oh good grief, just pay someone already. You clearly have no inclination or ability to read, comprehend or follow simple instructions that hundreds, if not thousands, of WordPress users have been following, with a fair amount of success, for years now.

Of course if you hire someone to do this for you, be it Numeeja or anyone else, you’ll have to give them FTP access and cPanel access to your web hosting account. That’s the only way they can access your server to perform the install.

Installing WordPress is straightforward. In fact, and I normally NEVER advise this, but if you have a Fantastico icon in your cPanel dashboard, I highly suggest you use it to install WordPress with one or two mouseclicks. It sets up the database and user for you; it’s pretty brainless actually.

And I’d be willing to bet my left and right arms and legs that any halfway decent WordPress expert or web developer would be able to install WP for you in under five minutes.

Hi joinmueller,
“Good grief” is right! You seem convinced that the installation of a WordPress database program into one’s website is a very easy process. I don’t get that impression from reading the many questions and problems that other prospective users have everyday with the “installation” of this program onto their computers.

I don’t pretend to be a webmaster, but I have designed, coded, and installed my own website, which has been operating very well for several years now. Once in a while I need to contact a technician for some help, and they usually lead me through some steps to correct my problem. I’ve learned a lot in this way. I’m a well educated professional with two advanced degrees and several years of experience as a writer and editor, so I believe that I know how to read and to comprehend various documents. Some of the “simple instructions” that you mention don’t seem to include every necessary procedural detail. I don’t think that I’m the only WP prospect who has encountered this problem, not from the comments that I read on the Forum.

Do you know any WordPress “expert” in Rockford, Il? If so, I would be glad to contact him or her to install the WP database onto my computer. In the meantime I’m going to be checking on other ways in which I might get this program installed. I haven’t given up on WP yet.