How to install Wordpress?

Posted by Se7en

How? install Wordpress is fairly easy. If your website hosted on a linux server with cpanel interface. It should take 3 - 5 Mins, maybe less..

Step 1
Log in to your hosting Control Panel. Normally www.yourdomain.com/cpanel

Step 2
Click on Fantastico

Step 3
Click on Wordpress on the left Menu bar under Blogs

Step 4
Click on New Installation

Step 5
As you can see from the picture above, It's pretty straight forward. Just fill you details and You're There, All Done!

* Install from pre-installed script may not be the latest version, depending on your web host company. If you want to latest version of Wordpress, you need to install it manually.

Install Wordpress Manually

From here I will show you how to install Wordpress manually. It will be a little harder compare to Fantastino. But still, pretty easy.

Step1
Download the latest version of Wordpress from wordpress.org. Download the Zip file

Step 2
Im assuming you have Winzip or Win rar software. You are now STUCK if you don't any installed. So, unzipped the downloaded zip file.

Step 3
Wordpress works with databases, you need to be able to create a MySQL database manually from your hosting interface/server. If you can't figure out how to create one, contact your web hosting company immediately. If they can't create a database for you, you might need to consider to change your host, Since this is still in an early stage.

Once you MySQL database created, you will get a database name, username and password. Basically these are the information you needed to install or connect database to Wordpress.

Step 4
Open the wp-config-sample.php with text editor. I'm using Textpad(use your favourite plain text editor). Do not use Microsoft Word. Then, find the text below;

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

Fill in your DB Name, Username and Password. 99% chance you won't need to change the localhost. After making those changes, save the file as wp-config.php instead of ~~wp-config-sample.php.~~

Step 5
Now, it's time to upload the whole Wordpress folder to your hosting server. You will need a FTP software to do this. I'm using SmartFTP Client(You can use and FTP software you like). If you do not have any FTP Software and Don't feel like download one, there's another way to upload. Simply go to My Computer, in the address bar type ftp://yourdomain.com. Then, right click on the main area and select "Login As". You should be able to connect to your host. Upload everything to the server.

Step 6
Nearly there, open your browser, go to www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php . Run the install script. you will see..