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Which download are you referring to?

If you’re talking about the WordPress software, then it isn’t something that runs on your computer, as such. You put it on your website. Which might be running on a hosting service, or you might have it on your own computer for a local test installation.

You can run WordPress on your Mac. One way is to install MAMP and run it under that on your mac. Unless you open ports on your router this will only be avaliable on your local network.

I frequently run test sites on my mac mini.

Thank you Otto and juggledad for you responses. I don’t yet know anything about WordPress. I have a user name and a password for the www.remarpro.com site. I have a website hosted by GoDaddy.com . I see a blue rectangle on this page that says in white letters “Download WordPress.”

If I click on this blue patch, will I get something useful or is WordPress just for Windows?

Thank you for your help.

Jim Adrian
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WordPress is software which normally runs on your host (though it can run on your local computer with the right software)

since you are new to WordPress you should spend some time getting to know about it. Take a look at Getting Started with WordPress to get your feet wet.

I have used GoDaddy hosting before, and yes, you can run it on their Linux hosting plans. It kind-of-runs on their Windows based plans, but since the Linux ones are the same price, I’d recommend one of those instead.

I definitely recommend reading the Getting Started with WordPress section, especially the first “Installing WordPress” entry, but here’s the super-condensed-for-GoDaddy version.

1. On your GoDaddy account, make sure you’re running Linux.

2. In their Control Panel screen for your Web Hosting account, you want to look for an entry named “Databases”. Here, you need to create a new Database, and pick a username and password for it. Choose one that is not the same as any of your other passwords. Something hard to guess, randomish even. Write them down, you will need them later. When you create a database, it will also give you information about a “host name”. Write this down as well.

3. Download WordPress. It is a ZIP file.

4. You have a choice here. You need to put the WordPress files on your site. To do this, either:
a. Use an FTP program to access your web hosting account and upload all the WordPress files to your site, or
b. Using the GoDaddy File Manager thingy, upload the ZIP file to your site there, then use their File Manager to unzip it in place.
Either one works.

5. After getting WordPress on your site, visit your site in a web browser and you’ll get the install prompts. Fill in the information and set it up. You will need to put in the proper database info from before, and it will check and tell you if the information is incorrect.

More instructions are here as well:
https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5110/manually-install-wordpress-into-your-hosting-account

Otto,

This is just what I need. Thank you for your help.

Jim Adrian
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Otto.

I got up to the FTP of the files and folders and visited the website, which is https://www.yeswecangroups.net

Here is what I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/content/67/6420467/html/yes/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 254

Do you have an idea about what I should do?

Thank you for your help.

Jim Adrian
[email protected]

Otto,

I should add that when I go to the site I am automatically brought to https://www.yeswecangroups.net/wp-admin/setup-config.php
which I assume is normal for the setup.

Jim Adrian
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check the number of lines in the file wp-admin/includes/image.php – the total should be 599 lines.

I suspect your FTP upload of teh wordpress files timed out (did not complete) and you have a partial install. You have four choices
1) try ftp’ing the whole thing again
2) ftp the files in chunks
3) ftp the wordpress.zip file and then SSH into thesite and unzip it (you need to have SSH setup on the host)
4) I beleive GoDaddy has a script to install WordPress – use that