Title: Clueless with SQL and PHP!!! Install/setup problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Clueless with SQL and PHP!!! Install/setup problems

 *  [mweleski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mweleski/)
 * (@mweleski)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/)
 * I’m stuck at step 4 of the famous 5 min. installation: Upload everything. Upload
   everything where? I’m assuming to my SQL database.
 * First off, I am an experience PC user but not familiar with SQL and PHP.
 * So, unless I’m misunderstanding something, I need to upload my wordpress directory
   to my SQL database. (?) Now, I just purchased web hosting from 1and1.com, and
   I’ve set up an SQL database there (it’s behind a firewall, they say, so it says
   I can’t access it directly from a home PC).
 * How do I upload everything???
 * Thanks,
    Confused in Virginia

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 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603528)
 * When it says “upload everything” it means upload the contents of the wordpress
   archive file to your web host. So you need to transfer the files from the unpacked
   archive into your web space using an FTP client.
 *  Thread Starter [mweleski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mweleski/)
 * (@mweleski)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603536)
 * What is my wordpress archive file?
 * Transfer to any particular place in my webspace?
 * Thanks,
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603538)
 * By archive file I mean the zip file that you downloaded from wordpress.
 * “any particular place” really depends on where you want your blog files to be.
 *  [martindm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martindm/)
 * (@martindm)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603801)
 * did you sort it?
    It’s also worth noting that if you upload the files loose in
   the root directory of your FTP directory, then the blog will be on the home page.
   I’m kinda having a few of my own problems installing too. Did you rename the 
   wp-config-sample.php file by removing the word ‘sample’? Are you meant to do 
   that (having edited the DB details!) ?
 *  [stevie212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevie212/)
 * (@stevie212)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603802)
 * Yes remove the “-sample” so it is just “wp-config.php” edit that file, with the
   necessary information, including the name of your database, the user and the 
   password for that user, it all works well try the install script. But read the
   readme.html file first before doing anything.
 *  [stevie212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevie212/)
 * (@stevie212)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603803)
 * Delete this post
 *  [stevie212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevie212/)
 * (@stevie212)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603804)
 * Delete this post
 *  [stevie212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevie212/)
 * (@stevie212)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/clueless-with-sql-and-php-installsetup-problems/#post-603805)
 * Oops can the mod delete my last two posts, the damn server threw a “408 error”
   and I kept posting just in case it went though.

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