Installing W/O control panel – just ftp access

  • Blake

    (@alexanderblake)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    I have a blog on my personal site, and have installed through several cPanels on my friends’ sites, but I’m faced with a problem today.

    One of my friends wants a blog on his company page, but his business is hosted through RCN in Chicago. What they do is host your site as webspace, and you are able to do whatever, but it must be done by FTP-ing to it.

    I have downloaded WP 2.7, extracted it, and transferred everything to ftp://site.com (blog folder). Now I want to make a database, but I’m having trouble with it because there isn’t a place to do this. There is no myadmin.php file, or SQL anything.

    Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Once I get WP up and running, I’m golden.

    Thank you all!

    Blake

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  • Any chance for your friend to contact the server admin to have the database created?

    look for a free mysql hosting service to connect to

    https://www.host.sk

    https://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk/

    https://www.freesql.org

    etc.

    Thread Starter Blake

    (@alexanderblake)

    WAIT. The freeSQL stuff is outstanding. But I also have a ridiculous amount of hosting space for my personal sites. Can’t I just host her database on my site?

    Then point the wp-admin/wp-configure.php file to her SQL on my server?

    Thanks!

    Blake

    Thread Starter Blake

    (@alexanderblake)

    Rather than setup a new hosting account at host.sk (which is awesome, by the way), I would like to just host her DB on my server. I can create a new DB with ease using my cPanel, but how do I tell WP on her host to see the DB on my server?

    Thanks

    Thread Starter Blake

    (@alexanderblake)

    Okay,

    I created a DB for her using my cPanel. I’m hosting through Camelot-Hosting because they fully integrated my Zen-Cart.

    My server for files is server2.camelot-hosting.com but what do I put for the DB address in the wp-config.php file?

    DB_HOST is (databasename).server2.camelot_hosting.com ??

    Thanks!

    => In your cPanel, add “%” without the quote to access host (under mysql section)

    => then db host, you can use the server name (without “databasename).”) or your own domain name. I recommend using your domain name https://www.yourdomain.com (since server name shall get changed in the future, we never know)

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