Installing wordpress on your hosting manually

There are two methods how we can install wordpress.  One is through fantastico, and the other one through manual installation.  Today we will discuss on how to install wordpress manually.

Below are steps that we need to go though.  It is not that bad actually. Pretty straight forward process.  You can also watch youtube video for a better understanding.

1. First we need to make sure our hosting and server have all the software requirement. Two mandatory softwares are PHP and MySQL. You can refer to your hosting if you are not sure.  If you are using Hostgator,  than I’m sure your hosting package already include all the necessary requirement.
2. Next step is to download a copy of the latest wordpress file from www.wordpress.org. We also need to have ftp program. ftp which will help us transfering our files to the server.  I did discuss about it here.
3. Now login to our hosting cPanel and go to MySQL databases. What we need to do now is to create Database name, username and password. All our blog entry will be stored this database.  It is recommended to store the basic information about the database somewhere safe eventhough we don’t really need to use it after completing the installation process.
4. Then link User with Database and give all privileges to user on database.
5. On our pc, we need to unzip the wordpress file. Once done rename the wp-config-sample to wp-config. Then open the wp-config in a text editor and change the database name, user name and password. Save the file when done.
6. Now upload all the wordpress file to our server root directory. Usually the root directory folder is public_html.
7. Once completed we can initiate the installation by typing www.mywebsite.com/wp-admin/install.php. Just replace mywebsite.com with your domain name.
8. WordPress then will ask you few basic information about your website.  WordPress will ask for blog title and tagline. Don’t worry much about the details,  you can always change the basic information later.

That is all about it.  Nothing much.  Let me know if you still need some help.

 

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