Hello,
I’m currently fiddling around with a droplet I created a few weeks ago. I followed the steps to put a default wordpress install on the droplet. However, Ideally I’d like to use the wordpress install for just my blog, and build my own home page.
I have had a little nose around for how to do this, and it seems to be that if I have my wordpress install in a subfolder (the ‘index.php’ file specifically?) then I can just point people at that from my homepage.
So I connected to my droplet using WinSCP and had a look, in ‘root’ all I have is what I suppose is a file, called ‘WORDPRESS’. I have worked with wordpress before, through GoDaddy, and when using their file explorer it appeared that a wordpress install was actually a series of folders, so that got me wondering whether I even had worpress installed correctly?
In short, does it sound like I have wordpress installed correctly? And how would I go about using wordpress just for a blog page on my site?
(Also, I put distribution as ‘Ubuntu’, but to be honest I wasn’t even sure what ‘distribution’ meant! Ubuntu is just what I appear to be running when I log in to the droplet using PuTTY: 'Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ')
Thanks,
Jack
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yes, that will probably be easiest, and most likely you will find yourself using phpMyadmin for many other things.
Okay, well, it really sounds like MySQL is installed, but I am not sure why your MySQL username and password are not on your wp-config file.
How about this:
move (just temporarily) all of your files from www/blog back to www
once you have that done…log in to your wordpress dashboard.
Go to http://badlymauledboy.co.uk/wp-admin/options-general.php and change your Wordpress Address and Site Address both to http://badlymauledboy.co.uk/blog
click save
move all your files back into blog and then try to log in to http://badlymauledboy.co.uk/blog/wp-admin
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