Bob31

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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’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.

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.

Clayton,
For over a week now I have been trying to install a WP database blog into my website. I have done my best to follow the instructions in the WordPress Codex instructions for this process. Yesterday I removed my database and the WP files from the blog subdirectory on my site. Today I have been trying to correctly set up the necessary database for my blog. Now you are instructing me to remove all of these files and settings and to start all over and “it really is a five minute process”. My friend, it takes longer than that just to load all of the wordpress files back onto the subdirectory of my site.

How do I start with a fresh database? How do I empty the existing tables in my database? I’ve got Codex instructions for “Installing WordPress” and Codex instructions for “Editing wp-config.php”, and instructions for “Uploading WordPress to a remote host”. These instructions are very confusing. I initially tried to follow them, and when I got to the point of opening the install.php file to run the script, I encountered the same problem as I mentioned above. It didn’t do anything except to repeat the display of the “File Download”. After several attempts to get something to happen, the control changed and I got another WordPress form. I don’t know what activated it. I filled it out with the supplied citations, and apparently the database was quickly installed, but it had the “admin” user name, which I couldn’t change. I don’t know how to avoid these problems. You indicate that the “user name and password” that I initially cited are just “for access to your database” and they are not the same “user name and password” that I may want to use for my blog, but I can’t seem to avoid some problems in this process. Please give me some clear brief instructions as answers to my above two questions. I’m still willing to try to install a WP database, but it obviously takes more than five minutes. Thanks again for your efforts to help.

Clayton,
I changed the user name to “admin” in the MySQL controls on the control panel for my site and in the wp-config.php file of the blog database. I then uploaded this revised file to the subdirectory, blog, on my host’s server. I then tried to open or run the install.php script from the wp-admin file, but it won’t open or install the database. I only get a repeated display of the File Download control with this message: “Do you want to open or save this file?” The “open” control doesn’t do anything except repeat the Download control. The “save” control saves the install.php file to my Desktop, but it still can’t get installed from there. What do I have to do to get this database installed? This is far from being a simple process!!

Clayton,
I assume that I need to make some changes in the basic settings for my database before it can be installed. Right now the install.php file is not being opened or run, probably because I don’t have the right username in the database.

Where do I go to make the effective change: in the control panel of my site or in the wp-config.php file or does it have to be made in both places?

Once I get this change made, I hope that I will just have to download the revised version of my wp-config.php file to the subdirectory of my site. Is that right? Then the install.php file should install the database. Right? And when exactly can I replace the default user name, “admin”, with something else? If I login with that user name, it seems to be installed permanently on the database account. That is what I discovered before. I could change the password, but was only allowed to cite a “nickname” for the user. This is the point of my confusion.

I really appreciate your help with this. The instructions in the Codex guide are not as understandable as they might be. Anyway, I’m still trying to get the database installed. Thanks.

Hello,
I have configured a new database in my control panel, put the new settings into the wp_config.php file, uploaded all of the wordpress files to the subdirectory of the root for my site, and tried to install the database. When I try to run the install.php file from the wp_admin folder nothing happens. The control box keeps reappearing, but the database is not installed. I have tried to do this from the blog folder on my site as well as from the start menu. What do I have to do to complete this process? Any specific help would be appreciated. Thanks

Clayton,
I did find the wp_users table, and I was able to make changes to the user_login, the user_nicename, and the user display_name, but I encounter an error in the SQL syntax, so the revised settings weren’t accepted. I couldn’t figure out what the error was, so I just deleted the database and the blog files that I had loaded into the subdirectory of my site. I guess that I’ll start over and try to get this database set up with my appropriate names. If I can’t do that very easily, I will probably just forget about using a blog. I don’t want to spend another week going through this process again. Thanks for your help.

Hi Clayton,
I have one WP database blog installed in a subdirectory of the root for my website. Its name is bobs75_blog. The user name for the database account is bobs75_admin. It is this “admin” name that I want to change.

I went to the control panel for my website, and this database is listed with the MySQL account. I don’t see any citation for “wp_users table” anywhere in these settings for the account. I can delete this account or add another user or I think that I might be able to add another account from this panel, but I’m not sure about that. Are the WP files all set up so that I could just add a new account with a new user name and password and delete this other account? You say it takes “about 5 minutes” to install wordpress. It has taken me about a week, and one of the biggest difficulties is just trying to figure out the different usernames and passwords need to be cited for different steps in the process. That is why I don’t want to have to go through all that process again.

Since I can’t find the wp_users table on my control panel, I can’t follow the other steps of your instructions. I’m not sure that the steps that you cite are related to the options that I have on my control panel. So I’m still not sure what to do. I’m sorry to trouble you with my confusion, but I appreciate your help.

Hi Clayton,
Apparently from what you say above, I can change my database blog account. But I don’t know exactly how to do this!!!

Where do I go to make the appropriate changes–the control panel for my website or somewhere else? Should I just install a new database account and delete this mis-identified initial one? If so, where do I go to install another new account? I don’t where to go to get to my admin profile with WP. How do I get to it? I don’t just want to use a “nickname” on this account. I don’t want this database account set up with “admin” as the user name. Please give me some precise instructions for correcting this. I trust that I won’t have go though all of the steps again to install a WP database on my site. I just want to get one correctly identified. I appreciate your help with this. Thanks.