Hi, im starting a new blog but not sure how to upload it to my server.. I was given two folders -One of the folders being the last owners folder with the template in it and the content.. -Another folder which was downloaded from the wordpress. Im just so confused on what to do now - what folders do i upload? Also i do not use cPanel i use a hosting panel called "Helm" apparently you get in cPanel special folders that make you upload it?? Any help is appriciated - i dont want to loose visitors by not being up!! Thanks.
The template folder should be inside wp-content/themes in your wordpress installation. Each template that you use will be inside its specific folder, so all you would have to do for the templates is to upload the respective folders one by one into the wp-content/themes folder. And, for the content part, I guess it is a sql database file? I suggest this. First, backup everything under your host root folder, so that if something goes wrong, you can always fall back to it. Create a new folder in your root folder and install wordpress in it. Refer this link for assistance - http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress All the required wordpress files, etc. will be created there. This will also make sure that you won't screw up your current domain (because it is in a subfolder). Then upload the templates into the wp-content\themes folder in that new installation. Log into your dashboard and see if you can choose the themes. Content - I'm hoping you have something like phpmyadmin. Login to it and upload the sql file to the corresponding database. The content should be up there too.
You'll need to supply more info. What is the template. Is it a wordpress template? If so the template folder needs uploading into the wp-content/themes/ folder The other folder needs uploading so the wp-content is in the directory you wish the blog to be hosted in. Then just run examplesite.com/wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions (Don't forget to make the configure.php files writable
If you are worried about your visitors then what you can do as a quick fix is upload wordpress.org and then import your database within wordpress dashboard. You will have the stock theme but your content will be live. After which you can add the other theme and plugins to complete the blog.
Ive uploaded all but i get a database error.. Error establishing a database connection http://www.moviestatus.com/ Ive checked database name, user and pass but still doesnt work?
This is the information from the error page. Do you have answers to these questions? You might need to contact you hoster. ------------- This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host's database server is down. * Are you sure you have the correct username and password? * Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname? * Are you sure that the database server is running?
Localhost is an alias for 127.0.0.1 IP address, which means "the same host". If MySql database is on the same server as your web site, you should use localhost. It is not a unique feature of cpanel. Other configurations may also have MySql on the same machine. If MySql is on another server, you should find out the domain name of that server (ask your hoster.)
You actually dont have to change that term at all... why are you doing that... simply assign the database name, database password and database username.
Ok, the website is mine, Lolage is my brother trying to help. If you know, give me your Msn and you could try remotely controlling my PC through 'request remote assistance'. Thanks, Tom.
Sounds like you haven't a clue what your doing ) Lets start simply. You bought this blog from someone right and they sent you a zip file or something with a template in it. As your dealing with WordPress you don't need the template to get WordPress working, but you do need the WordPress database the original owner was using to create the site on your server. I'm going to bet they also include a copy of the database within that zip file, if so it's probably going to be an sql file so something like database.sql. There's a possibility it's an xml file as well since you can backup WordPress as xml. If you have a file like this and you haven't used it then no matter what else you are doing you won't get your blog to work. If this is the case you need to access the database through a program like PHPmyadmin and import the sql file into your sites database. If you don't have a file like that do you have the blogs database on your hosts server somehow? If you do you have to access it via WordPress and you do this through a config file. Have you got a wp-config.php file? If you do these are the important parts- define('DB_NAME', 'nameofdatabase'); // The name of the database define('DB_USER', 'username'); // Your MySQL username define('DB_PASSWORD', 'passowrd'); // ...and password define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value $table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please! This last one will probably be OK as is, but if after you get everything setup it still doesn't work I'd check if the person who sold the site used a custom table prefix (I always do). You get the first three variables from your webhost and the fourth normally doesn't need changing. Had you added these correctly already WordPress would have worked (if the sites database was uploaded) or gone into install mode (if no database uploaded) so looks like you've not set that part up correctly. I have a strong feeling you've not imported the database sql file Hope this helps. David Law
Just to confirm the site you bought does/did have content on it right? If not sounds like you just bought a WordPress template which is far easier to install than a full site with existing content. David Law
The file i was given was: A wordpress folder with inside it:- wp-admin (folder) wp-content (folder) wp-includes (folder) and lots of normal php files.. Thats the file i downloaded from wordpress, i was told i had to download that so i did. The other folder i was given was the template folder (i think)... Its named "lightbreaker" and has these files inside:- images (folder) js (folder) and lots of normal php files. What i did was put the whole of this lightbreaker folder in:- wordpress>wp-content>themes>then i pasted the whole "lightbreaker" folder there. In the themes folder there is already 2 folders named "classic", "default". I have checked and double checked my database name, user and pass still with no luck. Hope i explained it better - thanks, Ben.