MissTackett

Ok…got it.
On Laughing Squid, your public folder is a /web/content folder.

Here is the site…the music is pretty good if you get a chance to listen.
https://www.sundayvalleyband.com/

THANK YOU to everyone for all your help!..I really couldn’t have done it without you.

Ok, so I followed the instructions on the video. When I pulled up filezilla and entered my host name which is my domain name, it would not let me connect. Laughing squid said to use ftp3.ftptoyoursite.com instead. I did and it connected. I followed the instructions, uploaded wordpress to a new directory named blog. I went to the domain like he does in the video and all I get is a broken link. I went to the link that I used as the host name with the same path as demonstrated in the video and I still got a broken link. I imagine that I need to use my https://www.website.com as the host, but Filezilla will not connect. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ah. I misunderstood the testing tutorials for testing pages on a website, rather than testing wordpress on my mac outside of the web altogether. I some people need to run web functions on their computer to play with web design?

Anyway, that has nothing to do with simply installing wordpress to my website? Correct? So all I have to do is follow these instructions on this video and I should be good to go? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAkr_xbVXn0

When I go to my domain link, nothing appears. It’s just blank.

So I need to stick with MAMP, and not worry with the database I created in the control panel, or whatever I uploaded to Filezilla? I can watch another MAMP tutorial. Is there anything I should do to start from scratch? All I need is a hosting site, a wordpress download and MAMP, right?

Thanks Erik! I am trying to upload wordpress to Laughing Squid hosting site. I set up a SQL database in the control panel of the site and then I downloaded Filezilla. I matched the wp-config file to the username and password in the database and then opened Filezilla. In the Remote Host folder, I couldn’t find a public html folder, so instead I used the file pathway that Laughing Squid sent me which was a web/content folder. I dropped the wordpress files there. Then it transfered the files. To the web/content/-wp-install/admin.php domain and instead of showing the install page of wordpress, it said the link was broken.

Then I went to https://ftp.mydomainname.com. There was an index list of wordpress files. I read the code of the install file and it said that I wasn’t running PHP. So I downloaded MAMP. I named a database under myPHP admin. I matched the wp-config file to this new database. I dropped wordpress into the htc folder. Waited. Went to localhost/8888/wp-install/admin.php an again, no dice. I know I am missing something, I just can’t figure out what. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!