Need help with WP Installation

Hi everyone,

I purchased a WP site that I need installed on my own server. The problem I'm having is getting the data base to work with the install.
Looking for someone that can resovle that issue and get my site up and running.

thanks

So help me to understand ... you purchased a hosting and you want to install WP blog engine on that hosting ? Is this correct ?

I have a reseller account with hostgator and want to put a working blog on it with a database. I've uploaded the files but need to have the existing database integrated so the site will work properly.

jannysoft said:

So help me to understand ... you purchased a hosting and you want to install WP blog engine on that hosting ? Is this correct ?

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Create a new database, then use phpmyadmin to import the sql dump into it. Change the connection details in the wp config file to point to the new database and voila. Don't forget to have a db user with proper permissions on that db, of course.

I followed the instructions below and the first page of the site shows up but none of the links work.

trapper56537

mdvaldosta said:

Create a new database, then use phpmyadmin to import the sql dump into it. Change the connection details in the wp config file to point to the new database and voila. Don't forget to have a db user with proper permissions on that db, of course.

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mdvaldosta said:

Create a new database, then use phpmyadmin to import the sql dump into it. Change the connection details in the wp config file to point to the new database and voila. Don't forget to have a db user with proper permissions on that db, of course.

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If you have followed the instruction as posted by mdvaldosta it should work.

1. Create a new database
2. Create a user and assign a password and permissions
3. Update your wp-config file (db_name, db_user, db_password, db_host)
4. Upload your wp files to your server
5. Use phpmyadmin to open the new database and import your purchased database. You shoould receive affirmative confirmation if everything is correct.
6. Open the website in you browser www.foobar.com/wp-admin and log in (Use a subdomain or directory folder as necessary).
7. Configure the various features of workpress - Settings, plugins, users, etc. Update each before moving on.
8. By this time it should be working

trapper56537 said:

I followed the instructions below and the first page of the site shows up but none of the links work.

trapper56537

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Probably because prior install was using .htaccess rewrite rules for permalinks. Do this: make sure your .htaccess is writeable then go into the permalinks section of wp-admin and save changes. That will try to rewrite the rules to the .htaccess file.