Okay so hi. And yeah welcome to the forums. Life is good in here. Life is very scary out there in the real world, but I digress.

What did you ask about?

Oh yeah. So here's the deal. You make a shiny new database (somehow - I use fantastico because that is all I know) and you upload your files to your server. You indicate you uploaded to database/blogs, so that means your $baseurl value would be something like http://saragrace.net/database/blogs/ which means your installer would be located at something like http://saragrace.net/database/blogs/install/index.php - and (lo and behold!) thar she be!

So if you one day want http://saragrace.net/blogs/ to be where people find your blog then you need to eradicate the /database/ folder thingie and simply upload your files to your_root/blogs - then run the installer then delete the install folder. Even though phpinfo.php is in the install folder and is a fine file to have handy one day.

Did I forget the question already and make up an answer in my head that I think sounds good? It's an election year here so there is a lot of that going around.

I understand what you are saying about getting rid of the database/blogs structure - I will fix that.

I still don't understand how to run the installer. I don't physically know how to run the GET statement....where do I put it?

Thanks,

Dilly Dally

Very simple, but I personally edit a file before I upload the b2evolution package.

In the package you will find /conf/_basic_config.php which, sooner or later, needs to be edited. So you either edit it before uploading, or you change permissions on it so that the installer can edit it.

Anyway you don't have to GET anything. Just go to path_to_b2evolution_files_and_folders/install/index.php and select the options you want. It will do the installation for you then tell you the randomly created password it comes up with for your "admin" login name.

Okay, moved all the files, (I had already modified the config file)

So I go to the install index.php and get errors.

If you go here, I think you should be able to see the errors.

http://saragrace.net/blogs/install/index.php?action=start&locale=en-US

I've not a clue how to fix them
Dilly Dally

The config file is found but alas it looks like they are not correct.
Do check them again:

MySQL Username: sgblog
MySQL Password: (Set, but not shown for security reasons)
MySQL Database: sgblog
MySQL Host: localhost
MySQL tables prefix: evo_

On your local machine it may be that your username is root and your password is empty.
So check again and try once more.

Good luck

We are making headway...had to change localhost to something different. The install appears to have worked (I have a pdf of that screen if that would help)

It gave me a user name and password, but the link provided to log in fails.... Page load error - I don't know if this will help - but this is the link that I get the page load error on:

http://localhost/b2evolution/blogs/admin.php
Any ideas? Thanks for nursing me through all this!
Dilly Dally

You have http://localhost/b2evolution/blogs/ as your $baseurl in your conf/_basic_config.php file. That won't work. Change it to http://saragrace.net/blogs/

EdB-you are my hero - I am "in". I am sure I will be back with more questions but thanks again for getting me started.

Dilly Dally