misterblister

Thank you. I’ll be back.

Everything seems to have worked fine. I am now officially a happy camper. Thanks for the help. However, I imagine I’ll be back.

Me again. Well, I tried again, and hey it worked. So I will proceed.

I got a database name, a username, a password, and a localhost name. I edited and saved the wp-config.php file. I uploaded the entire file-structure to my website and I visited
mysite/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
and I got the message “Error establishing a database connection!”
This is indeed progress, but now I’m stuck. I’ve sent the 5 min. installation steps to my webhost in case they can spot some conceptual issue. Any thoughts?
Talk about conceptual issues: I don’t have a clue as to how to proceed *if* the installation is sucessful. Will I be editing things on my home computer and uploading them? Will I be logging in to my web site and using some wordpress-supplied software? Do I need to obtain some third party stuff to make things work?

My webhost says:
“Let us know what you would like the database to be named and what database username to use. You may want to check with wordpress to check if it requires any special database naming conventions. “
Any restrictions? Absent restrictions, are there any conventions?

Ah ha. Thanks.
My webhost does support MySQL. I’ll contact them and ask for a new database to be setup.
Is that all I need to say, “Please setup a new database for me”? Or do I need to tell them something about it, what it’s for, the number of fields, etc?