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WELL, iPowerWeb instructed that I throw out EVERYTHING and start again from scratch. I did and graduated up to a new user error instead, which at least, in some way, is progress I guess:

“Error establishing a database connection! This probably means that the connection information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect. Double check it and try again.

* Are you sure you have the correct user/password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?”

By the way, what does “Remove all leading spaces before any of the above details” mean? Are there any?

A TANGENT: I was told I could publish my BLOG in my public folder. It now occurs to me that this may make my username and password rather easy to see. Is that true?

If I put the blog in a more discreet location on the server (where iPW seemed to install it’s own b2 blog software), would that keep my info more private?

Thanks for all help guys and gals!

Going in circles folks. I swear I’m doing everything right and still NOTHING. So I’m going to walk you through exactly what I’m doing, hoping this reveals something.

Firstly, I’m a Mac OS 10.3 user with iPowerWeb as host, if that sets off any issues with other users off the bat.

1. I’ve successfully created a database and username.

2. Now I download the latest WP (1.2.2 Mingus) from this page: https://www.ads-software.com/download/

3. I carefully follow the instructions on wiki 5 minute install page:

https://wiki.www.ads-software.com/?pagename=5MinuteInstallation%2Fwp-config.php

4. One thing I couldn’t quite do in these instructions lives is: “# On Mac OS X TextEdit is ideal for editing simple files like this (remember to choose Plain Text from the Format Menu).” The truth is no such option exists in the format menu of TextEdit.

HMMM: However it DOES exist in preferences, and it was defaulted to RICH TEXT instead of plain text.

5. Here’s what I changed:

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

6. Saved changed file to name: wp-config.php

(Because of discovery in #4, I changed said file AGAIN and reuploaded it seperately. That’s cool, right? It doesn’t need to be uploaded with the folder to work?)

6. I aimed the file at:

https://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

RESULT: same messages!

ARRRGGGGHHHHH!

The one thing the directions didn’t say at Wiki was WHAT to upload. Yes, it said the entire contents of the decompressed folder with the aforementioned adjusted files. Still, that folder was called WORDPRESS and I wasn’t sure if I could just drag said folder into my public folder onto my server.

I did. Left it as /wordpress/ and placed it here:

https://www.mydomainname.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

I don’t need to put ‘public_folder’ into that line, do I?

(Thanks for trying…)