WordPress Installation Guide

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WordPress is a well known blogging platform which was established in 2003 to enhance the typography of everyday writing. Nowadays, it is the number one blogging platform on the web with a market share of larger than any other platform. WordPress which is owned by Automattic, provides its users with two different blogging solutions, the first which is WordPress.com, where the user creates his blog under WordPress’ service (blog.wordpress.com). The 2nd one is the self-hosted blog where the user will have his own domain, hosting, platform and everything is dependent. I highly recommend going with the second choice where it gives more future opportunities and freedom at the same time.

There are many advantages in using wordpress which could be easily summarized in the below points:

1. User-friendly.
2. Support.
3. Plugins.
4. Themes.
5. Open Source (Free).
6. Easy to install.

Today I will be taking you through a step by step guide on how to install WordPress on your own hosting account.

There are two possible scenarios, scenario one: if your hosting provider provides you with a cPanel and a Fantastico package, as shown within the instructions below:

1. Login into your cPanel account and look for the Fantastico De Luxe Icon.
2. In the Fantastico page, choose wordpress that comes under Blogs on the left hand side.
3. You will be forwarded to the WordPress overview page, where you can view/edit current wordpress installations and add new installations as well. Click on new installation.
4. You will be forwarded to another page which is the installation details page, where you can choose the destination folder of the installation, admin username and password. Also you have fields to enter other details such as your nickname, email, site name and tagline. After filling all this information, press on Install WordPress button.
5. It will automatically create the database and configure it and install wordpress to the desired installation folder. A message will appear informing you whether the installation was successful or not. You can also send yourself a copy of all the installation details for future purposes.

Scenario two: if your hosting provider does not have the Fantastico package installer or for some reason you just want to install wordpress manually, installing wordpress manually is not difficult, but it will take more time, check the instructions below:

1. First of all you have to download the latest installation file of wordpress from WordPress.org’s download section, you can choose either a .zip or .tar.gz compressed file.
2. You have to upload the installation file into your “public_html” folder in your hosting account. This step could be done either by using an FTP client such as FileZilla (which is my favorite) or manually through the cPanel interface by choosing Upload Files from The File Manager.

if you want to install your blog on a subfolder for example: http://www.domain.com/folder you have to create the folder “folder” and upload the installation files into it instead of “public_html”.

3. Extract the installation files. From the file manager option in your cPanel choose the installation files and press “Extract” button on the top. Or you can easily
4. Extract the file locally on your machine and upload it through FileZilla.

when uploading it manually through FTP, make sure that you upload the folders and files inside the folder “Wordpress” without the original folder.

5. Now you have to create a MySQL database and a user access for it too. This could be done using MySQL Database Wizard. Check the screenshots below.
6. Now, after you have extracted the installation files you will find a file called wp-config-sample.php which should be renamed to wp-config.php. After renaming it, you have to open it with any basic text editor and find the following lines and edit them as follows:

define('DB_NAME', '[DatabaseName]'); // The name of the database
	define('DB_USER', '[Username Created]'); // Your MySQL username
	define('DB_PASSWORD', '[Password for Username]'); // ...and password

make sure that you don’t use the brackets “[“ and “]”

Save the file, and re-upload it in case you downloaded it for local editing.

7. From your browser, open the following link:

http://www.domain.com/installationfolder/wp-admin/install.php

in case you installed it directly on the root (public_html) use this link:

http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/install.php

This action should finalize the setup process of your blog. In case you face any database related errors make sure you check the wp-config.php file you have edited and that all the filled info are done properly.

make sure you save the username and password of the admin panel given within the installation so you can access your admin area later on.

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