scorpiankh

I couldn’t edit the Settings > General > Site > WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) as I couldn’t get into the admin panel because localhost:8888/lalaland/wp-login kept redirecting to localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-login and giving me a ‘page not found error because that directory doesn’t exist ….
There never was a Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress folder, it was always Applications/MAMP/htdocs/lalaland.

But I managed to get it fixed anyways, I went into PHPmyAdmin and found the database table for options and changed the site url to localhost:8888/lalaland there directly, and it all seems to be working fine now.

I’m not entirely sure what you mean, the MAMP settings are as they were when I installed it .. the problem is for some reason the WP files (barring the home page) seem to think the root folder is (or should be) named ‘wordpress’ instead of ‘lalaland’ as it is now …
It’s something in the WP files defining the site root as ‘wordpress’ … I uploaded a screen shot of the source code from my home page here to illustrate my point … please note the url in the address bar underlined in green with ‘lalaland’ as the root folder, but the urls in the links in the html (underlined in red) have the root folder defined as ‘wordpress’ …

See, now I knew it would be something really simple and stupid that I’d overlooked!
Enabled PHP and now it’s working!
Thanks!!! ??

I’m on a windows server
I have contacted my hosting provider but haven’t heard back from them yet, I’m anticipating them saying “Not our problem, contact WordPress support” so trying to cover both bases at once.

Yes I have set up a database, and a database user and password.
Yes I have adjusted the wp-config-sample.php to include the database info and re-named it wp-config.php, and yes uploaded that and all other files to the server and browsed to https://lalaland-co-nz.picard.techservers.net/wp-admin/install.php

The error I’m getting is just a:

The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Please try the following:

Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Which suggests that the file hasn’t been uploaded or I’ve misspelled the url, but, like I said, I have checked those, the file most certainly is there, in the correct place even, and spelled correctly too.