markb202

I don’t know what I’m doing here. I suspect anyone looking also knows I don’t know what I’m doing here. I suspect this is why so many XAMPPLITE queries go unanswered, we don’t know what we’re doing here. It’s just too much work educating the complete beginner for such a small team as runs WordPress. I’m going to WordPress.com and do it the easy way. I suspect I will learn there what I need to know here, and it will take some time, if I really want to learn it. I am a suspicious fellow it seems.

A wise old man taught me to always acknowledge the good. And I do because it is good to do so, good for me, and good all round.

Thank you for your silence. Thank you for WordPress. But mostly, thank you to the great mystery behind that supports it all in this wonderful existence.

And even if nobody ever sees this acknowledgment it goes into the mystery and a little good is manifest somewhere as a consequence.

Mark

Any help gratefully received. I can follow instructions but I don’t understand the technical matters too well.

LOADING WORDPRESS TO XAMPP

I Followed instructions to the letter at https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/ and going to https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in Firefox I got the following message:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Warning: require_once(ABSPATHwp-admin/includes/admin.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\upgrade.php on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-admin/includes/admin.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\xampplite\php\pear\’) in C:\xampplite\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\upgrade.php on line 5

I clicked on the above function links and got OBJECT NOT FOUND error 404

It looks to me like path=’.;C:\xampplite\php\pear\’ needs to be included on line 5 in ‘ABSPATHwp-admin/includes/admin.php’ of ….upgrade.php

Or ‘ABSPATHwp-admin/includes/admin.php’ path=’.;C:\xampplite\php\pear\’ is the path that needs to be included at line five.

I have looked and I can’t figure out where it should be inserted or what exactly should be inserted. I don’t want to go playing around in the file and forget what I’ve done and where I’ve done it. I don’t want to ruin what is already good. Can anyone help?

Thank you. Mark

Excuse me, I am a complete beginner beyond operating a computer. But not beneath following clear instruction.

I am posting to this thread because it is marked as unresolved and I’d like to know how it went.

I want to put a standalone blog together and WordPress looks like the platform to use but I’d like to check it out on my computer first. Am I right that this is possible?

And if I follow the instructions here will I then be able to upload to my chosen host without further modification?

Regards. Mark