Installing Wordpress

Installing Wordpress

There are two ways it can generally be installed. The easiest
way being to use a “one click” installer such as Fanastico. You
may however need to manually install it if your host doesn’t
offer an installer or if it is down for maintenance.

This Wordpress blog was manually installed and the longest
part of it was uploading the files to the host. Their included
instructions are in a file named readme.html and they are very
straightforward in nature.

I will give you the simplest version of installing it manually.

1) Make folder on your computer named wordpress so you may
more easily find it.

2) Download the current version of Wordpress from their
site into that folder.

3) Unzip the the zip file into you wordpress folder, it will
make it’s own sub folders for it’s files.

4) Create a MySQL database. You can use whatever name
for it you want but the easiest would simply be wordpress.

4a) Depending on your host you may have to create a password
for the MySQL database. Many host use a default password
though, usually the same one you were given when you bought
your hosting package.

5) Look for a file in your wordpress folder named:
wp-config-sample.php open this file using a text editor such
as Notepad. (Don’t use Wordpad, it will mess the file up.)

After you open it you see that it has places clearly marked
for the information, all you have to do is paste your information
over their’s.

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>

6) Save the file as wp-config.php and upload it with the rest
of the files to what ever folder you want to put the blog into.

7) Open www.yoursite.com/yourblogfolder/wp-admin/install.php
in your browser. After this is all pretty much downhill. Wordpress
will give you the username admin and generate a password
that you can change later.

And that’s it.