I'm lost ! Trying to set up Wordpress on Site5

[Zhuli]

Alright folks...

Hope someone can give me a hand, it's driving me crazy !

I bought a domain name and signed up with site5 (hosting). And since 2 pm I'm trying to install Wordpress...

Site5 does have a "one click" installation through Fantastic but I'm not sure it's working fine : it says

Connection Strings
Perl $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:correres_Blog:localhost","corr eres_Zhu","<PASSWORD HERE>");
PHP $dbh=mysql_connect ("localhost", "correres_Zhu", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("correres_Blog");

I did see my blog running though.

But when I tried to upload themes via FTP (Filezilla), I couldn't see the public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes folder (nor I could see any folders actually...).

I basically lost. There're documentations everywhere but it's still too technical for me and I'm very confused with Site5 interface.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to :

1) Install Wordpress
2) Upload FTP files on Site5 with Filezilla

Thanks so much !

[jellramvort]

wow, this seems like a lot of hassle doesn't it

it looks (from the snippet) as though its having problems with reading the SQL db information..

have you been able to log in to your blog? using the wp-login.php?

give that a try, be sure to refresh the file listing with your ftp client..ohh

and i like fireftp, which is a firefox plugin.. very nice and intergrated with the browser..

Good luck, and keep a stiff upper lip

[solidghost]

How about the database? Did you set it up and change your configuration file?

[jshaffstall]

As a Site5 user myself, I can recommend that you put in a trouble ticket about the one-click install problems. Their technical support is generally very good about these things.

That said, I don't use the one-click install much myself. The general procedure I go through is this:

1) Using FileZilla, create a directory on the server to hold the blog (say /public_html/blog)

2) Download the latest version of Wordpress to my machine and unzip it (say to c:\wp)

3) Upload everything inside c:\wp to /public_html/blog

4) In a web browser, go to your website's /blog directory (say www.example.com/blog)

5) Follow the prompts

6) One of the things you'll be asked for is the name of the database and the name of the database user

7) Create those in the Site5 control panel for your site. If your Site5 username is user, and you name your database db, then the full database name is user_db. Same with the database user you create.

As part of 7, you need to create a database user and give it full privileges on the database you also created.

8) Another thing you'll be asked for in the Wordpress install is the host for the database, use localhost.

I'm sure there are lots of details that you'll have questions about, don't hesitate to ask.

Jay

[solidghost]

Don't use the one click install if you can. The scripts there isn't always updated and may have bugs.

[Zhuli]

Alright... after a few headaches, I finally made it yesterday. Sorry for not giving news before but... well, headache I said !

My main problem was to find the public_html (I'm new to that !) but I eventually found it, thanks to your detailed infos.

Now I'm trying to convert my blogger template to Wordpress. Any idea how to do it ? Any tip ?

I tried to pick a WP template and customize it myself but it's pretty tricky for me so far...

[jshaffstall]

I'm not good with templates myself, but I know some other forum members have created their own. Hopefully they'll chime in with advice.

Jay

[Zhuli]

Hope so too !

[PaulR]

The best advice i could give would be to find a similar wp theme then using a custom css modify it.

Best of luck

[Zhuli]

I finally made it ! Phew, took me a week... still a few bugs, but I'm quite happy with the results.

I ended up picking a basic template and doing everything myself.