gordonroque

Well, it’s really kind of odd. I’ve set up two separate wordpress sites. One is for my blog and one is for my music/art. I set up the blog site first as my trial run since it is intended to be a simpler site, and it went smoothly. Now two weeks later, I did everything exactly the same with the music site over the last two days, but could not get to the WP admin set-up which is the very last step in the installation.

I did everything as stated in the orginal post on this thread, but to no avail.

Finally, on a hunch, I did something different from what I did with the first blog site. In the wp-config.php file for the blog site, I originally put in the actual web address “www.wherepianosroam.com” in the field where it requires the MySQL Hostname (or DB_HOST). Since it worked for that, I did the exactly same thing for the music/art site by putting in the actual web address.

At my wit’s end after trying everything else, I decided to put in the hostname that my webhost company lists in my MySQL settings. After I did this, it worked!! The heavens in the sky opened up. A chorus of sweet angels started singing. A fresh bacon double cheeseburger fell into my hands. Blah Blah Blah . . .

I can now proceed with getting my site together. I hope this helps.

On a related note, I wonder if I should now do the same thing with the MySQL hostname in the wp-config file for my blog site. It is currently working fine, and I don’t want to mess anything up. If someone has advice on this, please let me know.

Thanks.