New to MySQL, PHP and WordPress

Try here:
http://wiki.ww.wp.xz.cn/5MinuteInstallation/wp-config.php
From your cpanel, create a mysql database.
Note the name of it.
Note also the password you had to use to create it.
In your webspace, you have to decide where you want your blog to appear.
Will it be at http://www.example.com or http://www.example.com/blog ?
If it’s the former, upload all the WordPress files to your site – it will be into htdocs or public_html.
If it’s the latter, create a new directory, and upload the files there instead.
As to what to upload – unzip the download. There will be a folder called ‘WordPress’. Open it if you see another single folder, open it again. When you see a long list of files, and about 4 folders, that it what you upload.
Post back when you need to ?

First off, you need to check that your host has PHP running.
Email them, and ask
“Do you have the following:
# PHP version 4.1 or greater
# MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater”
If they say no, move hosts as WP will not work.
If they say yes, we can get it going.
As for where to upload it:
You created a folder called ‘word’ yes ? That’s a directory, so to get to your blog I would have to go to http://www.example.com/word
My guess is don’t make a directory, just upload the wordpress files to your site but not in a folder.
If you want to, email me (tamba2 at gmail dot com) and I’ll try to install it for you.

Xampp.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
Download.
Install.
That’s it 🙂 Honestly.
Run it, open phpmyadmin, and create a database called ‘wordpress’
Put your blog into htdocs/wordpress
Edit wp-config.php to have this :
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

Run install through your browser after starting things up my running apache-start.bat and mysql-start.bat
The install address:
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
The address will be
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/index.php
Easy 🙂

What do the instructions mean when it says save the file wp-config.php in the root of your Word Press install?

(giggle)
I feel really dunb for asking, but it is still not working. It keeps telling me that is needs the wp-config.php file, but it is right there! This is what my config file looks like:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // example: ‘wp_’ or ‘b2’ or ‘mylogin_’
// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);
/* Stop editing */
$server = DB_HOST;
$loginsql = DB_USER;
$passsql = DB_PASSWORD;
$base = DB_NAME;
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);
// Get everything else
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>

OH! So that’s how you do it! I didn’t know I had to drop the entire wordpress file into htdocs to get it to work!
I’m slow. But thanks for your help!