DaveCoast

I think you really want 2 websites on 1 hosting account – right? Are they completely independent?

If they are separate and independent, below are some options. First install your applications in separate subdirectories of your document root (public_html, WWW)

1. Create a landing page like index.html in the document root with links to each site.
2. Redirect your domain name to 1 of the sites and use a subdomain for the other
3. Use subdomains for both
4. Still an option but not practical – access your site directly with example.com/sitedirectory1 or example.com/sitedirectory2

Hope that helps

There is only 1 document root per domain (the main thing you are renting from a hosting service). It is usually www or public_html (visible in your hosting admin panel like cPanel or via something like FileZilla).

Fantastico sees something in that directory and I’m guessing it a previous version of WordPress based on the (2/3).

Here’s some options I’m aware of to resolve:

1. If you have nothing of value in the document root (a brand new site that you haven’t done anything with yet) – Just backup the directory then clear it and try the install again.

2. Start the reinstall and look for the target directory dialogue and have put in a subdirectory like “mywpsite” (knowing to get to your site you would need to type “yoursite.com/mywpsite” in your browser.

I would do both and then do a redirect on my domain to eliminate the typing of the subdirectory – that’s just me

Hope that helps.

Hello World is a Post and it sounds like you created a Page. Two different post types.

Not sure what Theme you are using but try this (based on Twenty Eleven)

1. Log In
2. Go to Dashboard/Appearance/Menus
3. From your Menu control panel add your page to the Nav Bar (which probably currently has “Home” and “Sample Page”.
4. Refresh and you should see your newly created page.

Note – there should be a section called Pages where you can add pages to the menu

If you get the database error from the WordPress Install dialogue, you have it installed in the correct place.

If you can run phpMyAdmin and see your database then your MySQL server is active.

Please check the following:
1. Browse to phpMyAdmin
2. Click the home icon
3. Click your database (to be in your database mode)
4. Click the Privileges button on the top

You should see your data base user with the following values:
1. User = the name you gave it
2. Host = localhost
3. Type = database-specific

Can you get this far?

Dave, I think the confusion it around what the document root means. I would think your WAMP control panel (with the green dots) should show you the current document root.

Let’s assume that it is C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.21\htdocs\

Then that directory will be brought up when you type “localhost” in your browser address bar (like https://www.www.remarpro.com). If you only type localhost then it will look for something like index.htm or index.php to run.

So since you installed WordPress in …\htdocs\testwordpress you would type localhost/testwordpress/wp-admin in your browser. Then once you complete the install you would type localhost/testwordpress to access your new spiffy site.

I just use sub-directories (like /testwordpress) in my local document root to allow for many test sites. Then I access those sites with localhost/site1 or localhost/site2 etc…

Does that make any sense?

A couple of items need to be done in order to install.

1. Download wordpress and know where your unzipped “wordpress” folder is located.
2. Know where your WAMP document root is – I would expect it to be c:\wamp\htdocs for a default install
3. copy the wordpress folder to your document root folder and leave untouched (this will be you base to install multiple test wordpress sites).
3. while in Windows Explorer at c:\wamp\htdocs your should now see a wordpress folder.
4. make of copy of the wordpress folder which should create a folder named wordpress Copy.
5. Rename your wordpress folder to you new site test name (something for you to make up) for example testsite1
6. you should now have a folder c:\wamp\testsite1
7. Verify your WAMP Apache and MySql servers are active
8. Go to localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser (or how ever you get to phpMyAdmin in WAMP
9. in phpMyAdmin Create a new database – your name choice – something like testdb1 (remember this, it is needed for the install)
10. while still in phpMyAdmin go to databases and click your database
11. while still in your new database click the Privileges tab
12 Click add new user – again give any name and password you’d like just remember them (also make sure server is “localhost”) – for our example you should have something like user = testuser1 and password testpass1.
13. ******* now you are ready to Install WordPress *******
14. In you browser address window type localhost/testsite1/wp-admin hit enter and you should begin the wordpress install dialogue (which should begin with an offer to create your config file – let it and then it will ask for the database info from above.

Hope this helps.

Thx esmi, sorry for the tone with useless – I know the file is XML but it was previously displayed as text in my browser. Enabling the RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) changed the look and it actually rendered the page (enabled since that last time I was on that page). Root cause is a beautiful thing.