WordPress installation Using Cpanel
I was talking about blogging the other day. Here is a tutorial on how to install one of the most popular publishing platforms, WordPress. I tried to do a video tutorial, but it did not quite work out. It’s at the bottom of this post. Instead I did a visual walkthrough on WordPress installation:
First go to www.wordpress.org, and click Download.
Next, Click the Download format of your Choice.
Login to your Cpanel, and click the MySQL database button.
Next, Create a MySQL database for your blog. After you’ve added that, create a database user. After that’s complete add the user to the database using the drop down menus circled in the shot above.
Now, click on File Manager. Click on public_html or www when you get in the file manager. Upload wordpress zip archive that you downloaded.
Now Click extract file contents in the file manager. Delete the zip archive. You will notice a new directory called WordPress.
The directory you extracted is called WordPress. If you want, re name this directory to something like ‘blog’ or ‘journal’, so your URL would be www.example.com/blog/. To make WordPress your whole website, simply extract the file on your desktop, and put all of the individual files in to a new zip folder and upload and extract the zip folder. Or you could FTP it up. That’s how I did it.
Now, click on the PHP file wp-config-sample.php. Edit the file.
Fill in your database details (where I have it circled).
Open the WordPress install URL www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php, and we’re ready to start the installation.
Type in the name of your blog, and your email adress. This can always be changed later.
Now, we’ve installed WP! COPY YOUR PASSWORD! And then login with the user name admin. Your password can be changed later.
Login Page.
Now it’s time for you to explore! Change your password under the Users tab. More tutorials on how to add plugins and themes coming soon!
