4thwave

Just chimmin’ in . . .
I am a newby to WP and I would say that just diving in and breaking it a few times is the way to go. The education alone is worth the effort. WP really is the way to go considering that these guys (folks like whooami for example) are a great resource. I was using a wysiwyg until someone showed me a WP site. As for experience with site cinstruct I only know a little xml and can sort of mod a css file but that’s it.

I loaded xampp and did a local install on my HD (security enabled for SQl and Apache) and I am building the site local.

Bottom line is you can do it and will have a great site moving forward!

4thwave again.
I figured this out and as usual it was a “speed” error.
I was in a hurry to get the local install done so I could get some work done. . . anyway I followed the instructions given

step by step

and it worked flawlessly

Major cudos to geeksaresexy.blogspot.com topic is resolved! Remember to secure the SQL server and the Apache server in the security console.

Thank’s all!

Hello all. I installed xampp lite and followed the instructions on the Geeks are Sexy blogspot site. I still get:

“Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404

Here is the code in the wp-config.php file. as it currently reads.

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

I must be missing something (sure am feelin’ stupid right about now!
Any help would be appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4thwave

Thank’s for the reply!

Would I be able to install to my local hard drive and build the site there and then upload to Godaddy thus leaving the old site in place? It looks like from your referral that a maintenance notice would go up instead of the old site remaining site place. Since I am new to WP it could take me awhile to learn to work with it and I would like to leave my old site up until ready if at all possible.

Thank’s