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I contacted my host (who I will not mention) and upgraded my account to a linux with access to phpMyAdmin. I thought that a wordpress account included access, but it didn’t. Evidently I did not read the fineeeeeeeeeeee print.

My basic question is what is the best method of uploading my database file to the host if I do not have phpMyAdmin available on the host?

Well, since I last sent a post I have, by some stroke of luck, been able to solve my permalink issue. I went into Wamp control panel, selected Apache modules and scrolled to a module called rewrite module. I selected (activited it), restarted my service and then went into the wordpress admin panel and reselected name and date under permalinks. After updating, I tested the site and all the links work as expected, without the index.php in the url. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone else.

The message that I got was “Your WordPress database is out-of-date, and must be upgraded before you can continue.” I overlooked the word “database”. Is there something different about upgrading the database versus upgrading the main files? I went and replaced the files except for wp-config.php and the wp-content folders with the newer version wordpress-2.3.2. When I went to try and enter the admin area I got the same message as before. I didn’t realize until now that it was talking about database. Any ideas? Thanks!

Well, I’m still having difficulty. Here is what I did
1. I went into wamp/apache2/con/extra/httpd.vhost. and added the following lines

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.org-dev
DocumentRoot c:Documents and Settings/My Name/My Documents/mysite-org-dev/public_html
<Directory f:/www/mysite.org-dev/public_html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

2. I went into the system32/drivers/etc/hosts and added a line as follows.
127.0.0.1 mysite.org-dev

3. I went into config.php and changed the dataname to the datafile that I had downloaded. I changed the DB User to ‘mysite.org-dev’.

4. I restarted my Apache service. I noticed that when I tested my connection to the database I got the message HTTP 404. All I changed was the datafile name and the DB User from localhost to mysite.org-dev.

5. When I went to the browser and typed in https://mysite.org-dev, the screen that loaded was the standard WAMP screen that loads when I type in https://localhost.

Being a almost 60 novice at this, I am striving to understand what to do. Thanks for your help!!!!

Thanks for the information. I will give it a try!

Thanks! I’ll check it out.

Sounds great! Where do I go to get info on how to create the contact form page? I’m still new to this.

I have yet to complete the design, but I was planning on putting the address list on a contact page.

Thanks! I had created these pages but did not know their purpose.

Give me a minute and I will figure this out! Thanks! I went to the page.php and single.php pages and reordered the divs and everything works great. I just don’t understand how wordpress uses those files.

How do I accomplish that? This may sound stupid, but what does single.php and page.php do? I noticed that my source for my pages showed the container div ahead of the sidebar head, whereas in my homepage the sidebar was first. Thanks again! This is my first week. I am using WAMPS as my local server and have made some progress in the design area.