nicolechatham

Once I do that, do I type in the same web adress and just start the installation from the beginning? In other words, after deleting the tables, if I go back to the website, will it be in the exact format it was last night to install it?

Okay, so when I finally got the screen to pop up last night to install wordpress, I logged off my computer and went to bed. I woke up this morning to install it and now it says “Already Installed
You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.” Could someone else have gone in and installed it? What do I do?

nevermind…I got it to work ?? Thanks SO much for all your help!! I appreciate it!

then I’m about out of ideas :(. Anything else I can check? I don’t know where to go from here…..

how do I check if the database server is running?

So, if I added the database “nicol_wordpress”, added the user “nicol_nicole” (with all privalages), verifyed the localhost, created a password, entered the information in Jarte, renamed it wp-config.php, and saved it in the folder, what could be the problem?

okay, in cpanel, I created the database “wordpress” but the size is only .01MB, which I’m assuming that means that there’s nothing in the database. Because it’s under Blog, then WordPress (as mentioned above), do I need to change the name of the database to be able to connect the two? I think that’s where my problem is because the username, database, password, and host that I’m typed in are correct.

Well, I don’t mean to sound like a complete ditz but I’m almost there! I’m working from CPanel and in the MYSQL, I created a user (with all privaleges) “nicole” and a database “wordpress”. It gave me afterwords, the username “nicol_nicole” and the database “nicol_wordpress” and I created a password for it. I opened the sample config from the “blog” folder through Jarte and entered:
‘DB_NAME’, ‘nicol_wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘nicol_nicole’); // Your MySQL username
as well as my password and left the host “localhost”. I saved it. So it’s saying “This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect “. Am I doing something wrong?

Okay, when I clicked on that link, this is what it gave me:

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.

What now?

Okay, on Firezilla, I went to “Site Manager” and entered in my FTP info. I dropped the renamed “blog” folder in the “public_html” link. Now, when you click on “public_html” a subfolder pops up with the word “blog” then a subfolder underneath pops up called “wordpress”. All the contents are in the “wordpress” folder. I tried the directory ” https://www.nicolechatham.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php” and it still won’t work.

The exact address I’m typing in is https://www.nicolechatham.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php. Every time I do, it says “HTTP 404 Not Found.” I put “blog” in place of the installation directory because I downloaded the folder with the wordpress contents that I extracted to the public html folder. What else do I need to do?