I’ve managed to sort one part of the problem, now there’s a new problem. But please allow me to tell you what i did.
I deleted everything on my webhost’s root folder. I made backups to the database before doing that. I opened my webhost’s tools and i went on to the database section to create a new database with the same name as the database i created locally. I managed to do that. Then i wanted to manage that database with phpMyAdmin but i wasn’t allowed to do so. Error: There are no users created yet to manage the database. So i created a new user with the same details as the user of the database on my local installation. When i did that, i got another error that didn’t allow me to create the user.
error: User kenneth already exists.
So what i did was i opened wp_config.php (locally) and edited the
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘kenneth’);
to
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘kennethjaysone’);
Then i went back to my Webhost’s tools and attempted to create a new user (kennethjaysone) and it allowed me to do that.
Since the database has been created, the user created, i was allowed to go into phpMyAdmin to manage the database. Then i imported the tables (database that i backed up on my desktop). So my database is up.
I transfered my wordpress files that i developed locally to the webserver using filezilla.
Everything was in place, then when i hit the URL (http://www.arenabadminton.com.my), the page appeared giving me hope that everything turned out alright…then to my horror, all the links we’re pointing to the localhost.
I solved that by going to the database (going to wp_options) table. I browsed the table in phpMyAdmin and look for the option_name called siteurl. The value for siteurl was [B]http://localhost/arenabadminton[/B]. So i figured out that i had to change that to http://www.arenabadminton.com.my.
Then i had another problem, the images that we’re intended to be on the posts we’re missing? So since the site was live, i tried to upload the pics into the posts, i get a new error:
Unable to create directory /home/httpd/vhosts/arenabadminton.com.my/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2009/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
Now i found the article to solve that problem and i’m just about to read it.
Just a note: I went in to my webserver and found that there is no uploads folder inside the wp-content folder.
I may need some help on changing file permissions so i’ll read up and if i’m unsure about anything i will come back here. Thank you all for you support.
One more thing. If you’ve seen the site http://www.arenabadminton.com.my, you’ll notice the awkward contact us link in the middle. I simply don’t know how to push it to the end.
The template tag that was used to generate the navigation is
<?php wp_page_menu('show_home=1&menu_class=mainnav'); ?>
The version of wordpress i’m using is 2.7
Thank you all again. I just wanted to document this long journey of mine so that people who are facing the same problem can find this post of help.
Thanks a million! sorry if this is a long post.