How to Install WordPress in Five Minutes: Day Three

written by BoraParis on September 18th, 2009

Hope you’ve done good job with your Hosting and Domain Name. Today we gonna to Install WordPress in Five Minutes easy.

Setting up Wordpress is not big deal. With BlueHost you can do it from cPanal in less than five minutes to complete.

If you’d like to play a little bit with installation in order to get some knowledge follow this simple instructions. It takes no more than five minutes as well.

1. Download and unzip WordPress package. Follow this link for last stable version of Wordpress.

2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server and user with all privileges for accessing and modifying it.

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3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.

4. Open wp-config.php file in text editor such as Notepad++, TextPad, or BBEdit etc. (A text editor is a program which edits files in plain text format.) and fill in your database details. (see Details below)

5. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server

a. upload all contents of WordPress package into the root directory (public_html)if you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/)

b. if you want to have WordPress installation in blog subdirectory on your web site (e.g http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/), rename the directory wordpress to the blog and upload it to your web server.

6. Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your browser.

a. if you install WordPress in the root directory, access http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php

b. if you install WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example you should access:
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

That is it! You’ve done with WordPress installation.

wp-config.php Configuration Details
Let say yourdomain is your URL
Database Name – dbname
Database User – dbuser
Database Password – dbpassword

Here is snippet to configure:

define(’DB_NAME’, ‘yourdomain_dbname’);

define(’DB_USER’, ‘yourdomain_dbuser’);

define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘dbpassword’);

See you next time on how to configure your WordPress Theme and Plugins.

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