Slogan

Articles For Knowledge Sharing » Writings-and-public-speaking » Blog-writing » How to Install Wordpress

---

How to Install Wordpress

Installing WordPress is very simple and easy. This is a 5-step manual process, requires a bit of computer knowledge and normally takes five
minutes. Also, there are some tools that automatically help you set up your blog in no time without you having to enter many details. E.g. Fantastico, Softaculous. WordPress is also customisable to suit your needs. Follow the step-by-step guide to activate WordPress on your hosting account:

Prerequisites
There are certain prerequisites before installing WordPress:

A text editor. E.g. EditPlus or Notepad++ for Windows or TextMate or TextEdit for Mac OS or
WebTide Editor for Linux

Web browser of your choice. E.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera.

PHP version 4.3 or greater.

MySQL version 4.1.2 or greater

Domain name and hosting (on your own web server or web hosting provider)

WordPress Installation Process
How To Install Wordpress
1) Download WordPress
Download the latest release of Wordpress from wordpress.org/download/ and unzip it.
2) Create WordPress Username and Database
Create a database for WordPress on your Web Server and a MySQL user with all privileges (access and modify) using your hosting provider's service (cPanel) or your own Web Server (using phpMyAdmin)
Using hosting provider's service -> cPanel
. Login to your website and go to Control Panel (cPanel) and under the Database section click on MySQL Database Wizard icon.
. Give a name to your database. E.g. demo (this name would be preceded by your hosting account name e.g. myname_demo)
. Create a username and password for the database user e.g. jeff (again this would be preceded by your hosting account name e.g. myname_jeff). Make sure to provide a strong password.
. Add the user to database and assign privileges. Check the All Privileges checkbox.
. Success message is shown, "User myname_jeff was added to database myname_demo"
. Remember username, database name, hostname and password. Using your own Web Server -> phpMyAdmin
. In your web server's phpMyAdmin, create a new Database by entering Database name and clicking on Create. E.g. demo
. Go to Home page (upper left) and click on Add a new User. Select 'Use Text Field' from the dropdown list and enter a username and a strong password. Leave all options under Global
privileges with their default values.
. In the Privileges section, go to Database-specific privileges and select the database created above under the Add privileges to the following database dropdown. Click on Check All.
. Click Go.
. Remember the hostname written after Server: at the top of the page.

3) Set up the config file
. In the unzipped WordPress package, locate the wp-config-sample.php file and rename it to wp-config.php. Open this file using any text editor and provide the following details:
/** Database name as in Step 2 */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');
/** User name as in Step 2 */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');
/** Password as in Step 2*/
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');
/** Use localhost if using your own web server, else use the one provided by web hosting
provider */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. UTF8 is the default value */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** To allow for Database Collation i.e. for the sort order of character set. Keep this null */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
. Also generate the security keys online using https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ for better encryption and security of your blog by pasting the above randomly generated keys in the above file.
. Save the file and close it.

4) Upload necessary files at proper location
Decide where you would like your blog to appear on the website:
a) In the root directory of your web site. (E.g.: http://yourwebsite.com/)
b) In a subdirectory of your web site. (E.g., http://yourwebsite.com/demo/ or
http://yourwebsite.com/abc/demo)
Root Directory
Upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (excluding the directory itself) into the root
directory of your web server.
Subdirectory
Rename the WordPress directory to your desired name and use an FTP client to upload the directory to
your desired location within the root directory of your web site.
5) Run Install script

In the unzipped WordPress, go to wp-admin folder and then run the WordPress installation script by opening the install.php in a web browser. Alternatively, open a web browser and put the following link:
a) If the blog appears in the root directory of your website -> http://yourwebsite.com/wpadmin/install.php
b) If the blog appears in a subdirectory of your website -> http://yourwebsite.com/demo/wpadmin/install.php
c) In a subdirectory of your web site. (E.g., http://yourwebsite.com/demo/)
Note: If WordPress is unable to find the wp-config.php, it will ask to create one for you. (You can do also do this directly by loading wp-admin/setup-config.php in your web browser.) WordPress
will ask you the database details and write them to a new wp-config.php file.
Here you will also encounter a checkbox "Allow my site to appear in search engines like Google and Technocrati". By default this is checked. Uncheck this if you don't your website to appear in search engines. Fill in your Blog Title, E-mail, etc. and click on Install WordPress and voila! You're done.
The next screen shows your username and password. Log in and start creating your blogs.

Article Source: Articles For Knowledge Sharing

About the Author

I have been a webdesigner for 8 years the main questions I get asked by both newbies and small business owners is how to make a simple website ,and my reply is always the same use Wordpress. I have put together the brief article to show How To Install Wordpress. I have also had some software made that takes you step by step enabling you to install wordpress in 30 mins you can get it here How To Install Wordpress

by: adambennett

Html View | Print View Total views: 158 Word Count: 872 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 - 0 comments

Publish/Share this article

To use this article on your site click here to get the HTML code |
Remember: The article body, title, author bio and links may not be changed or removed. By publishing this article, you agree to all the terms in our Terms of Service.


Rating: 5.0

--Choose-- 0 1 2 3 4 5

Comments

No comments posted.

Add Comment

Your Name:

Your Email:

Your Site:

Comment

Enter the code shown

More articles in this Category

1: Making Friends And Cash By Using A Tech Blog
2: Easy Tips To Help You Become A Blogging Success
3: Blog Marketing : How Simple Is It?.
4: Blog Sites – Why You Should Use Blog Sites For Money
5: How to Make Powerful WordPress Landing Page In 10 Minutes or Much less
6: Learning How to Use WordPress
7: Day by day Blogging Ideas
8: Intelligent, Simplistic Tech Blogging Ideas For Beginners
9: Why You Should Allow Followers On Your Blog
10: Learn New Ways To Set Up Your Technology Blog
11: Blogging Tips That Will Make You More Money
12: Why do most blogs never make any money?
13: Beginners Information To Blogging
14: Nothing Can Stop Your Blogging If You Use These Tips!
15: Don't Know How To Blog? Get Started With These Tips!
16: Successful Blogger - Attributes of a Successful Blogger
17: Blogging Advice That Can Work For You
18: Blogging to the Bank Tips and Tricks to manage Return.
19: Keeping Up With The Jones' Through Tech Blogging
20: Blogger to WordPress