shuura

@esok I have already done all that :/ my problem is granting privileges to the username I created for the mySQL database.

thank you for all your help so far, I have been using and following the Installing WordPress guide to the best of my ability but I unable to access the control panel that changes the privileges on the phpMyAdmin screen, the username, host name and MySQL database name and password etc have all been set up already and I’m confident I will be able to properly edit the /wp-config.php file later,

However: my webhost runs version 3.1.5 of phpMyAdmin, I think this is different from the version the WordPress installation guide because I cannot find any link to change privileges. I clicked on the Home icon and this is what it looks like. I tried clicking through all the possible links and tabs but did not find anything remotely similar to the description in the WordPress installation guide about usernames and checkboxes and setting global privileges. I am also not familiar with SQL queries so I don’t know how to change it manually via the MySQL client either.

I tried going to the MySQL tab and copy pasting the command

“mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO “wordpressusername”@”hostname”
-> IDENTIFIED BY “password”;”

into the “Run SQL query/queries on server ” box by replacing the databasename and wordpressusername and password I created and using the localhost for the host name, but that didnt’ work either so I am running out of ideas on how to get past this granting user privilege step..

Thank you! I found how how to access the phpMyadmin from my webhost, but when I try to use /wp-admin/install.php in my firefox browser nothing happens.

I created a mySQL database named “xyz” in the root directory because that was the only place I could put it. But the database “xyz” doesn’t show up when I connect to the webhost using filezilla. WordPress and all its contents are installed into a subdirectory under https://www.fourthewin.org/chuwei/ffxi/wordpress, when i put /wp-admin/install.php first a page with wordpress logo and very messy coding appeared along with a message saying wordpress is already installed, to clear database if i want to reinstall, then I attempted to open “www.fourthewin.org/chuwei/ffxi/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php” but nothing happens

also I am confused on how to access the dashboard ..