How to install WordPress step by step Tutorial for beginners
January 14, 2008
How to install wordpress – Step by Step
This article will step you thru the process of setting up wordpress on your site, following up from yesterdays article -
Step by Step tutorial on setting up your first blog
Step 1 Download Wordpress latest Version http://wordpress.org/download/
Step 2 Unzip the file to your desktop
Step 3 Log in to your hosting account via ftp – if you don’t have ftp software use
The following http://www.coreftp.com/download.html
Step 4 When you have logged into your hosting account look for the folder
Public_html – upload all wordpress files into this directory
Step 5 This is where we will need to set up the mysql database – its sounds frightening and almost too difficult to attempt but if you follow my instruction it will succeed.
Step 6 Log in to your hosting account via cpanel - www.yoursite.com/cpanel
Step 7 Find the icon mysql databases and click on this
Step 8 It will come up with a screen “Mysql Maintenance” Scroll down to add new database – type in your name this can be anything but for this demo we will use “wordpress” as the name – click on create database
Step 9 BEFORE you do anything further write down the name of the database that has been created it will be something like “wordpress_yoursite” – Make sure you write this down before going any further
Step 10 Now we are going to create a user for your database, scroll to where it says current users – type a name in for the user , this can be anything, for this demo we will use “johndoe” and a password 123456 – Before you go any further write down the password , now create user – screen will come back with the user name something like “johndoe_yoursite”.AGAIN write this down. Now we are nearly finished. We need to add this user to your database.
Step 11 Scroll down to “add user to database” make sure all privileges is ticked, find your username “johndoe_yoursite” and make sure the correct database is selected “wordpress_yoursite” Click Add user
WELL Done – we have just setup our wordpress database.
Step 12 We will now configure the wordpress installation, again using your ftp software log back into your website, change in the public_html directory, scroll down until you find the file “wp-config-sample.php”. This is the file we need to add those details that we wrote regarding the mysql database.
Double Click on the file and it will open for you as per the following
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<?php
// ** 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’);
?>
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Step 13 I have highlighted the above areas, just put your database name, username, and password into those areas – save the file, this file will then be uploaded to your host – Guess What we are nearly there one more simple process – Right click on the file that we have just altered on your hosting account – we need to rename this file to “wp-config.php”. When you have done this you are finished.
Step 14 Go to your web address www.yoursite.com/wp-admin this will complete the install of wordpress – Remember to write down the password that wordpress gives you. – That’s it,
If you follow the above steps you should have a successful wordpress installation. If you find all the above too mundane or you are time-poor like all of us, email me on wordpressinstalls@zoopta.com as I provide an installation service on wordpress for a fee.
Part 3 of our tutorial will be on using wordpress for the first time.
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