who dares to help me!

1 is there an option b/w editing in php my admin via net or via xaamp? I mean do u have to do only 1 or both at the same time

phpMyAdmin is not necessary, but nice to have, when using WordPress. Otherwise, not understanding your question.

and I cannot make a new database as I do not have “THE PRIVELEGE” , so is this database000000 my root directory?

You don’t necessarily have to create a new database to house the WordPress tables, but your database user (DB_USER in wp-config.php) must have the PRIVILEGE to create new tables.

and now will I upload my “wordpress folder” in my xaamp–>htdocs via my freevar ftp server to my freebies.freevar.com

I guess you can do that, but you don’t need WordPress running on your local XAMPP install. You can just download the WordPress zip file from the Download tab at the top of this screen, unzip the files to your local machine, then use FTP to upload those file to your host.

Resource:
Installing WordPress

ok I uploaded wordpress folder to my ftpserver

now why does my blog not appear on

freebies.freevar.com

Thanks Michael I am online, really need to fig this thing

So you are following the Installing WordPress instructions?

ok , I am trying , if I sget stuck , I ‘ll come back, just stay ,pls dnt go away

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I DID IT YAY!!!!!!!!! it was so easy lol
stupid me!

thx pal !
Michael u rock! hugs!

Hi, I am having similar problems. I keep reading articles about how it is so easy a newborn could do it, but I have been at it on and off for a few evenings now (didn’t realise I am this stupid). I bought a domain (from 1&1), then tried following the instructions from several different sites … created a database, renamed the wp-config-sample.php file and edited the text in Notepad . . . downloaded filezilla. Filezilla will not let me find my database to try to transfer anything. phpMyAdmin will not allow my to import anything. I do not speak any computer language and frankly I don’t understand what I’m doing, despite trying to follow more than 10 differnt sites, all with different ideas of how installing wordpress can be done so easily. Frankly I don’t even know how this program is even going to link to my actual name (where I want the blog) once — and if ever — I get it installed in this supposed database that I only created beacuse it was where I was supposed to put wordpress. I am starting to think buying domain was a waste of mnaoey and I should have just gone with a free blogging site where I could just type away. I’d appreciate it if someone could explain in English (not computer-ese) the actual steps I need to follow to make this happen. Thanks so much to anyone who can do it.

There are a bunch of youtubes on the subject

ok Cellb
I’ll try to explain you since I went through the same prob lem
lets do it step by step

first of all dele everything u have uploaded ,lets start fresh

step1: download wordpress.zip
step2: unzip it anywhere on your computer ,but rememebr it
step3: open wp-config-sample.php and open it in notepad

and replace the following values

Database Name
Database Name used by WordPress (it will be provided by yr domain provider,it can also be an Id number” any database that has been created for you or any database u created)
Database Username
Username used to access Database (sql database username)
Database Password
Password used by Username to access Database (sql database password)
Database Host
The hostname of your Database Server (mostly it is “localhost”)
REMEBER:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere‘)
that u dnt accidentally delete any , or any . or >, just change the values

save the file as wp-config.php

step 4: if you want to install wordpress in your root directory, so that your domain opens up to your blog then double click the wordpress folder you unzipped in your computer and upload all the files not the folder /directory itself but the containing files in it one by one through your ftp (I am using ftpcomm ,its pretty easy and free) to your root directory, if you want wordpress in your subdomain then make a new subdomain, name it wordpress , open it and then upload all the containing files in this sub domain folder which u names as wordpress

step 5: now go to https://https://name.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

and follow the easy steps
yr wp is installed
if you are still confused you can mail me at [email protected]

just remember that everything is uploaded each and every file sometimes the ftp server breaks connection or doesn’t upload all the files, so be sure that each and everything in you wordpress folder in your computer is uploaded t your root or subdomain folder

hope it helps

there is only 1 https:// in step 5 okie