Questions On Installing WordPress For Leopard Macintosh

Hi,

I am a noob at wordpress but is very interested in working with it lately. Just today, I downloaded WordPress 2.8.6 and downloaded a theme to go with it. Please allow me to explain what happened to me today.

1. First thing’s first, I have already enabled Apache server on my laptop which is really easy because I just clicked a button in the control panel.

2. Now, I unzipped the wp file I downloaded and dragged the “folder” to my localhost directory. I placed it in a folder named “myProject”

3. The next thing I did was I browse that directory where my wordpress files are, “http://localhost/~GFX/myProject/wordpress/” and it gave me this error:

There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.

Sorry, I can’t write to the directory. You’ll have to either change the permissions on your WordPress directory or create your wp-config.php manually.

4. I was able to figure this out so I save-as the file “wp-config-sample.php” to “wp-config.php”.

5. Now I opened “wp-config.php” and I’m stuck at editing the “database” “name” etc etc.

My question is, how do I setup a database in LEOPARD? I have been gogoling the whole afternoon but I get different steps which only confused me more. If I’m not mistaken, I have my MySQL server running already. This photo below is a screenshot of the MySQL Server Status.

Screen Shot of MySQL Server Status

I hope someone can shed light to my problem. My head is about to explode trying very hard to understand how this new world works for me 🙂

Best regards,
Allan