MarkTobin

Well, and here’s the thing:

I literally touched nothing. I deleted nothing. I added nothing. I fiddled with nothing.

Last night: it wasn’t working.

This morning, after posting a few queries and making myself look like the tech-idiot that I undoubtedly am: it works.

This confirms what I’ve long suspected: the world of computers and technology is illogical and populated with faeries and spirit-folk.

For the time being those magical creatures seem to be smiling on me.

Now, I’m off to play with Thesis and see how much of a mess I can make!

Hey there,

I would love to give you my feelings on Thesis, but I’ve hit another problem! Yep, I’m really trucking.

I can play around inside the admin/dashboard but when I click to view site, all I’m seeing is the holding page for my domain – the one that says ‘this domain is registered with BT’ or whatever. Look here:

https://www.marktobin.co.uk

What I would have expected to see at this juncture is the Blog itself.

I’ve read through some of the other (many) posts that already exist on this subject, but I haven’t found a solution that looks like the right one.

Anyone able to shed some light?

I can’t figure out if this is my problem, my host’s problem, or a WordPress problem. Going on past experience, I would bet that it’s my problem!

Many thanks

Mark

Right guys, I’m finally there.

Sheesh. Have I ever felt like the dumbest kid in the class.

So, clearly, my big mistake yesterday was uploading to the wordpress database, rather than the public folder. That’s been rectified.

Once I’d muddled my way to that realisation it was a lot more simple. The main problem was that the installation instructions from WordPress, as great as they may be, bore little relation to what I actually experienced in BT’s website manager environment. Because I’m new and nervous, I tried to follow it to the letter rather than trusting my instinct.

Anyway, I’m up and running now.

Just downloaded Thesis theme, so I can start messing that up and bothering the people on that forum.

Thanks for the help guys.

Hi,

Thanks for this. I feel like I may be getting somewhere.

I’m about to try to upload everything once again (I’ve deleted everything from the last attempt).

Before I proceed, let me just get one thing crystal clear.

This time, using Filezilla, I am going to upload the wordpress files to my root directory. Last time, I believe I uploaded to the WordPress database I’d created. I take it that was my first mistake?

So, this time, everything will be uploaded to the root directory.

CAN I DOUBLE CHECK THE PRECISE MEANING OF THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION BEFORE I MAKE ANOTHER STUPID/TIME CONSUMING ERROR:

“… use an FTP client to upload all the content of the wordpress directory (but not the directory itself) into the root directory of your website.“

I’m a Mac user (yeah, I know) do I take the above to mean that I upload all of the sub-folders contained within the main folder ‘wordpress’, but I don’t upload the main folder?

In other words, when I unzipped the download from www.remarpro.com, a folder entitled ‘wordpress’ loaded onto my desktop. This folder – let’s call it the parent – contains 28 different pieces of content, including files and sub-folders.

If I understand the quoted instruction correctly, I upload everything contained within the ‘parent’ folder (‘wordpress’), but I don’t upload the folder itself.

Right, or hopelessly wrong?!

OK, thanks for your assistance so far.

Either I am incredibly dumb or the instructions WordPress provide don’t tally with the particular interface that my webhost (BT) offers.

Cpanel or Plesk? Nope.

There is a ‘database manager’ within the proprietary BT website admin pages. I access this, I can create a database called wordpress.mydomain.blah.blah (I can’t remember it exactly). It’s definitely there, I’ve been back and forth, logged out and logged in and it remains in place.

The webshost also has phpMyAdmin. But it isn’t the version that is referred to within the WordPress documentation. They refer to version 2.6.0, the version offered by my Webhost is 2.11.1.

The steps described in the WordPress documentation simply don’t relate to what I can see on my screen.

Specifically: there is no radio button marked ‘Privileges’, while I can seemingly create a database in phpMyAdmin with the prefix ‘wordpress’, I can’t easily access/see this database within any of the menus.

Therefore, I am stuck at the point where the WordPress instructions want me to create usernames and passwords and switch on privileges.

I assumed, therefore, that I must already have these privileges. I also assumed that – as there is seemingly no option to create a new username and password for the WordPress database – that my username/password that I use to access my Web admin (through the host) would suffice.

So, with a database in place – and a vague hope that I’d got the username/password and privileges correct – I moved on to editing wp-config.php and uploading files to the database via FTP.

The upload seemed to go successfully, but when I tried to run the install script, and pointed a browser to where I thought the files had been uploaded, I simply get nothing at all.

I am so lost it’s untrue.

There must be a fortune waiting to be made for the person who can explain these things in plain English, and create manuals that have clear, illustrated instructions.

Anyone want to help?! Surely there’s someone out there who uses the same hosting as me and has done this successfully? Please?!

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I think I should have privileges through my hosting package. I’m certainly paying enough for the service, and it’s advertised as the ‘pro’ or ‘advanced’ offering (ironic, given my level of expertise!).

I will check back on their help pages and see if I can fix the problem from their side.

I was kinda hoping that someone on here may also be using the BT Business, web hosting package.

In the meantime, if I understand you correctly, I don’t need to create a specific database entitled ‘wordpress’ or ‘blog’ as per the WordPress instructions? I can simply load the relevant folders/files to the generic folder that already exists?

Thanks

Mark