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Dear LogicEarth
Im gonna say this again, I am truely not educated in this. Because of my ignorance and lack of knowledge I might be asking the wrong questions. So when I actually ask a question I get the 'wrong' answer. I do not believe that my situation is all that difficult .
I also believe that it is squarely on my shoulders that Im wasting your time, for instance. This is my problem:
I am part of a small business that I run from home. I was asked to do the layout of the Website - which we had (http://www.afrigreenevents.com)- but looked bad. The website was hosted on a server somewhere in the USA.
Now, this man requested me to download and install Wordpress.org locally, do the site as I wish and he will take over and run it on his server. Great I did that with difficulty. First, I had to download a Website Platform which includes MySQL. I started 'working' the site and couldnt get back in with what was saved as localhost @@@@. (I did a site layout before on Wordpress.com - easy). I started up Wordpress again and it took me back to installation. I re-read the instructions - as saw me @@@ without a mirror. Hence my questions.
When I started searching for help I got even more confused. ip addresses and such. The mistake I am making and confused about is this:
When I run install for WP - it creates a wp database and user with password.
Then the instructions says 'using MYPHP or MYSQL or whatever. Creat a User and give it privileges and then create a database.
I did that. Then instruction says you need ftp and stuff. So I downloaded Fox, FileZilla and FileServer.
Then I got lost. I lost it with database names, usernames and such. When I first tried to connect with FileZilla told me bout broken pipe and sockets.
I think my actual problem lies in my database names and my url. I do not understand if my url is suppose to say 'www.afrigreen.com' or http://www.localhost.afrigreen.com or without the whatever. I dont even know where to change it cept on general settings in wp. Even so, as soon as I log out I cant log back in with Localhost@@@.
Can you PLEASE help me? Im such an idiot already. It really cant be such a big issue. I believe its just me.
Amelda