first of all create a new page and all your content what ever you want to display in Home page. next step go to setting and select the Reading Option choose you your new create page .that will be display as home page.
suppose if you are installing wordpress first of all you have to create database and setup the information in wp-config.php. otherwise if you are migrating database you have to check permission and import database file in database whatever you create in phpmyadmin.
