Bob31

Hi Clayton,
As you apparently realize, we discussed this process earlier in this thread. You may also recall that I tried to make the suggested changes in the wp_users table. I encountered an “error in the SQL syntax” so “the revised settings were not accepted”, as I reported to you. So now you are repeating your suggested instructions, with an additional commentary “Anyone else getting A ‘Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check’ feeling?”. That isn’t helpful. I would like to know how numeeja makes this change in the blogs that she sets up. Maybe the plugin instructions could enable me to make this change. I may look at them, but I don’t want to create new problems. I hope that she responds with the details regarding the steps that she takes to make this change. I’m sorry that you somehow felt that it was necessary to get back into my ongoing problems and concerns regarding the set up of my blog.

numeeja,
I tried to add a new user to my blog so that I could delete the “admin” one, but I can’t do it. The program requires that I cite the new user’s email address, which is my only address that is already cited for the “admin” user. So the program won’t accept me as a “new” user. I don’t have another email address, and I’m not going to set up one. So how do I get around this problem? Can I delete the “admin” user before I add the new user’s name, password, and email address?

If I can eventually make this change to a new user, how can I delete the “admin” user name? What does a change like this do to the current WP files? Do I have to revise or upload some of them back to the subdirectory of my site? I need some very specific instructions for making this change, if I am to do it.

You indicate that you make this kind of change “with every new install” that you do. How do you do it? I would like to delete the “admin” user name from my blog. Please tell me exactly how to do this.

numeeja,
I had such a hard time getting this initial database set up, I’m not too eager to try to set up another one. I’m not sure where I would have to go to make your suggested changes. I’m going to have spend some time just to figure out what I have and how to customize these current WP files. Thanks for your suggestion.

Hello Friends,
I changed the user name in the wp-config.php file, uploaded the revised version to my subdirectory, put the blog title and my email address into the displayed boxes, and the database was installed. I got a report that my user name was “admin” and a new password. I was able to log in to the database, and my Dashboard was displayed. Apparently now I can begin to make some changes to my blog and style its features. I don’t believe that I can change the cited user name, which is “admin”. This is what I tried to change before, but couldn’t. I guess that I can change the assigned password, select a nickname and display name for myself, and even change the name of my blog. It will take me awhile to make these changes, and I’m still not sure how to set up the blog so that it can be viewed by search engines and other interested visitors. Anyway, I guess that I now have a WP blog in my website. Thanks for all of your help.

When I put the URL citation for the install.php file into my browser to get it to open the file, 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.

So I’m back at the point of my initial problem and question for this long thread: what is the correct username and password that I should be citing in the wp-config.php file? This is a big confusing mess!

jonimueller,
I went through the entire process of downloading the latest version of WordPress, creating a database, setting up the wp-config.php file, loading all of the files into the subdirectory of “blog” on my remote server, and then went to the install.php file in the wp-admin folder to open it so that it would install the script. It didn’t work. All that the program would do is to keep returning to the File Download control to open the install.php file. In wouldn’t run the script.

This time after I transferred all of the WordPress files into the subdirectory of my site, I noticed a new file in the blog directory that wasn’t in the initial set. Here is its id: .pureftpd-upload.4afd94ac.15.768d.6f300ddb. I don’t know where it came from or why it got loaded into this directory. I can’t delete it or remove it from the blog directory. What is it? Where did it come from? Is it a part of this new version of the database?

What can I do to get the database script for my blog set up? This is the problem that I initially encountered before. I would like to get this database set up for my blog. Any help that anyone can give me to complete this process would be appreciated. Thanks.

No error message. The program just keeps displaying the control to install, but it doesn’t get installed.

jonimueller,
It is not that I don’t understand the instructions to go to the “install.php” file in the “wp-admin” folder in the “blog” directory of the files for my website; it is that I can’t get the “install” script to install the database. I don’t know why it doesn’t work. That is what I’m trying to figure out and to fix.

I did find some reference to the /home/bobs75/public_html file in the File Manager records on my cPanel. It is apparently part of the secure path (or something like that) that provides some function for my website. It is cited here: https://srv03.arkwebs3.com:2083/frontend/bluelagoon/files/list.html?dir=/home/bobs75/public_html/ I have no idea what that is all about.

I’ll keep working on this. I haven’t given up on installing a WP blog into my site. Maybe I’ll get it right one of these days. Thanks.

Hi jonimueller,
I understand that the directory “public_html” is a root directory. It is the basic directory for the files for my website, but the URL for my site is not /home/bobs75/public_html. When you indicate that I can “type the file name directly into” my browser’s address bar, what exact file name do you mean? Is /home/bobs75 some file that exists in some public_html directory? If so, I don’t know where it would be. I don’t have any such file anywhere on my computer.

I use WS_FTP as my FTP client. I’ve used this program for years to transfer files to my remote directory. I know how to do that. I don’t use the File Manager of my cPanel to normally transfer files to my remote directory. My problem is that I can’t get the WP database installed in the subdirectory, “blog”, in the root directory, “public_html”, of the remote server where my website is hosted. I can transfer all of the WP files and folders to this subdirectory, but I can’t get the install.php script to install the database. I don’t know why it won’t complete the process. Thanks for your further commentary.

Friends,
Thanks for your further words of instruction. I may try again to install the database into my website. I have pages of instructions.

BTW, my cPanel for my website has a File Manager that provides an FTP function that can load any selected file for a web page to a server. The cited target for any such transfer is /home/bobs75/public_html. I did select a file and had it transferred, but it wasn’t loaded to my existing directory. Where could it have gone? I don’t have another website. This URL doesn’t take me anywhere. To what could it refer? I’m very puzzled by this, among other things.

Hello “friends”,
jonimueller, your question regarding LAMP implies an understanding of this citation that I don’t have? This is an example of some common misunderstandings in many instructions that I get for various computer programs. What is LAMP? What exactly does it do? I don’t believe that I have any such program on my computer.

numeeja, My problem is that I can’t the WP database installed into my website. I understand that the directories/files that configure my website are actually on another computer/server that is provided by the host of my site. Apparently if I give you the proper ID names and passwords, you will be able to access the files for my site on its remote server, and install the WP database into those files. Is that right?

My basic problem, as I’ve stated several times in my previous posts, is that I can’t figure out exactly what user name and password must be cited in the wp-config.php file in order to get the script installed. The MySQL function on the cPanel for my site, doesn’t give me a clear citation of the user name and password that I must use in order to complete the initial step of installation for the new WP database.

jonimueller indicates that all an experienced WP professional needs to install the database into the directory of my remote site is my “login creditials”, but he doesn’t exactly indicate the “target” of this “login”. This is probably the “login” to the control panel of my website, but I’m not sure. This is another example of some of the confusion that I encounter in many instructions.

Although I have designed and codified the files for my own website and used FTP for years to keep it up to date, I have not use the PHPMyAdmin function to “create databases”. I don’t have any database on my site, so this is a new procedure for me.

Anyway, thanks “friends” for you additional comments and suggestions. I’m still not sure how I’m going to get a WP database installed into my website, but I’ll keep working on this process. I’ll keep you posted on my progress.

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.

Hi a_johnson,
Your instructions seem to be pretty complete and clear, but I have one question. You indicate that I should

Log in to your admin area of your blog

, but how exactly do I do that?

Since I haven’t been able to install my database blog, I’m not sure what its files or pages are going to look like. Will this href rule in my blog be the only link back to my site and its pages that appears in the blog? If that is the case, that is OK. I would just like to know. I don’t want my blog to be completely isolated from my site once a viewer gets to it.

Thanks for your further instructions regarding this process. I do hope to be able to get a WP blog installed into my site, but so far I haven’t been too successful.

I want to install a blog in a subdirectory of my website. I understand that it will be formatted somewhat differently than the other features of my site. I plan to cite it in my menu with a link so that visitors to my site can view it and participate in it if they wish to do so. I’m wondering what href tag you cite in your menu that takes visitors to your blog. Is that just your normal URL with your domain address and then the added “blog” directory? What is the exact citation for your menu link? I haven’t been able to get my database blog installed yet, but this is one question that I have regarding the process. Your explanation of this process will be helpful to me and perhaps to akumpis also. Thanks.

Millionare,
CSS is basically a codified language that individuals can use to state rules that determine the style, dimensions, color, placement and other characteristics in which selected elements for a web page will be displayed. These rules must be written in accord with an exact order of syntax and the selection of the right characters, numbers, and symbols in order for them to function. If placed in an external Style Sheet such rules can control the display of selected elements throughout an entire website of numerous pages. The use of these codes simplifies the design of websites and web pages and enables webmasters and other web authors to separate their design styles from the content that they write or publish. The placement of such rules determines what elements they control, and this placement can be made in a cascading level on web pages. This is from an external sheet to a rule that is embedded in the head section of a file to a rule that is place inline in the body of a file. It may take you awhile to learn this language, but it certainly makes publishing pages on the internet much easier and more attractive than trying to do this without such rules. All of the tutorials and books regarding CSS can help you to understand the language and how to use its particular characters, but you’ll learn more by just starting to use CSS in your blog or other web publications. Good luck with it!