Installation HELP – Beginner

I too use GoDaddy…

How far exactly did you get on your install, and where is your website with WordPress located? That would give me a better idea of where to look, also I will upload a sample of how a wp-config file should look.

Most of the time, users don’t exactly know where to put the info they need to. It happens a lot, and it is not a stupid question.

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'put the name of your database here');    // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'the database username, usually the same as the database name');     // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your database password here, not wordpress password'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'the MySQL server name');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>

Thanks for the reply – So my wordpress folder is uploaded to https://www.24kgoldclothing.com/wordpress

I went into the Hosting Manager for the 24kgoldclothing domain on Godaddy and created a MySQL database with the name of gold24

I uploaded the wp-config.php file to correspond to
DB NAME: gold24
DB USER: gold24
PASS: *thepassword*
DB host: localhost (Where would I find the MySQL server name? – Im confused on this part)

After running the install.php i still get the same error. It seems like Im missing some glaring factor here, I dont know – after creating the MySQL database is there anything else I need to do to link it up to my site? It just seems like it exists unconnected to anything else. I hope this info gives you better idea of where im screwing up – I appreciate all the help.

How about contacting us at the install4free site? We do it for you.

You need to take out ‘localhost’ it doesn’t work with GoDaddy for some reason.

In your control panel, go to where your databases are, click on the name of the db you are using.
Don’t go to ‘Open Manager’, that is your actual database.
Look above, it should look something like this:

h4mysql.secureserver.net

That is your DB host.

Openpundit: I followed your instructions and my wp-config.php is as follows:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘gold24’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘gold24’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘********’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql277.secureserver.net’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>

(password is not stars…)

And I still get the “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”

Any other thoughts?

Doodlebee: I may take you up on that offer at some point – i feel like I should be able to get this right with some help, I would like to understand how to get this working so I can set up others in the future.

Could this have anything to do with DNS? I have it activated, should I remove? Blood pressure thru the roof…..

Once again thanks for all the help.

-Doug

Are you on a Windows server? (I remember seeing this error around here when users were on godaddy’s win server.)
Switch to *nix (unix, linux) server, I think you can do it for free.
WP works better on nix servers.

I am on a windows server – let me try to switch.

Oh yeah. Forgot to ask that. I don’t even use Windows servers anymore with WordPress.

IT WORKS. After switching to the linux server the install.php worked. Thank you very much openpundit and rudolf45 for walking my uninformed ass thru all of this. Much appreciated