Initiating and Installing Wordpress:
The following details would help you blog with Wordpress. Hope this would be useful to you.
Location of the Wordpress Blog.
There are a lot of web hosting sites that offer the hosting of Wordpress. For instance Wordpress.com and Wordpresshost.org. The usage of these sites would make your work easier. Choosing this service would help you skip the entire process of downloading, uploading, configuration and installation of the Wordpress onto your host.
The web hosts that would have mentioned “auto-installation” may charge you a monthly fee. Those that are mentioned as free blog hosting would provide you with a sub-domain URL address (like blogname .wordpress or blogname.wordpresshost.org). So if it is decided to go on with a free web host then mostly you have to install the Wordpress manually. This implies the same if you make use of your web space which you got from work, also. If this is the choice made then the second step and above would apply.
Wordpress Downloading.
Open the Wordpress download page. You might get a copy of the page by clicking the DOWNLOAD.ZIP link on the right hand side and then save it on to your computer. You might always want to place it where you can easily access it. After it is completed, unzip the file into a folder. You can do this by using the unzip application that is been provided with your computer. You can also do the same with the help of the third-party program of your own choice. For this, you can just right click the file to be extracted and then select the menu option which says “Extract files…”
Minimum Wordpress Requirements.
Make sure that your web host meets the minimum requirements that are discussed below:
• MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater
• PHP version 4.2 or greater.
Almost every web host provides these above mentioned requirements, but if you are in a dilemma you can ask in with your web host administrator.
Setting up MySQL.
Wordpress makes use of the MySQL database and so it is to be needed created on your web host too, which is not a vague or difficult process.
• Log in to the web host’s control panel and go to Website Manager. You may also go to the “Administration” Section in the absence of the “Website Manager”.
• Different web hosts may have different names for the links, but it may be easily recognized. Click either on “Database Manager” or “MySQL Administration.”
• On the page that appears you may find a link for the creation for a new database. The usual process would be that you may enter the database name and secure that with a database.
• The subsequent page would display the database information that you have created with its database name, host name and user name.
Database Information to Wordpress Config File.
Now open the folder where the Wordpress files were unzipped. You need to find a file named “wp-config-sample.php”. After the search is completed, open it with a text editor say Notepad. On the top of the txt, you may find the lines mentioned below:
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
You have to replace the values in the above mentioned lines with regard to the information provided in for the database created. For instance if you have given your database name as “loginwp”, replace the database values in the first line of the above mentioned lines. It would read as below:
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘loginwp’); // The name of the database
You have to repeat the same process for the subsequent lines also. You have to take care that you don’t delete the punctuation marks before and after the values.
After the above mentioned process, save and close the file. Now just rename the file to wp-config.php which was earlier wp-config-sample.php. You can do this by right clicking on the file name or press the shortcut key F2 (if you are on the Windows System)
Uploading Wordpress to your hosting.
To upload the Wordpress you need to have a FTP application. For you have don’t have a FTP application, you may make use of the CoreFTP, which is free program. To access and upload the Wordpress files, you may have to provide the informations regarding the FTP account. You may receive this from the web host’s control panel under the FTP Manager section. You may need the domain name, FTP user name and its password. Do enter these informations in the FTP application and connect to your web host server.
As you connect, it is to be decided where the Wordpress blog has to be placed. You may either place at the root directory or in a sub-directory inside. In the case of multiple blogs or sites on your server, you may have to place them separately in their own sub-directories.
After all these processes are over, you have to select and upload all the files and directories that are placed in the unzipped folder on the computer. This uploading would take some time depending upon your connection and server.
Running the Installation Script
After the process of uploading is over, do open your browser and run the Wordpress installation script.
• If you had uploaded in a root directory, then type in as: http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
• Or if you had uploaded in a sub-directory, type in as : http://www.yourdomain.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/install.php
Login Information.
The installation script involves two steps, in which the first one, you may have to enter your blog title and e-mail address. We can also change this information in the Wordpress in the Control Panel also. If it is already prepared, you need to enter in in the space available.
The second step is just like a summary page. Wordpress would help you by building up the database tables and create a random password \for you to access the control panel. Do refer to the password as it may be required in the subsequent step.
Change of Password.
You can also change the password that was created in random by the Wordpress, in the previous step. This would make the Wordpress more personalized and secured. For this move to the second page of the installation after you click on the log in the link, so that you can access the control panel login screen. Enter admin as the user name and paste the password that was created in the previous step and then click the Login button.
On the top, click on the link named My Account. This would help you in the accessing and editing of your personal profile. After this scroll down to find a box titled Update Your Password. Now do enter the new password of your choice. Now the page would be refreshed stating that the page had been updated.
Work On!
Now click on the link named View Site which would be at the top of the beside your specified blog title. This would display your blog.
Now you may go back to access the control panel by just adding the /wp-login.php in the address bar. You will be taken to the wp-admin directory where the control panel is located, if you haven’t signed out.
FAHIEC.com says:
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October 21, 2007, 3:07 pm