WordPress Tutorial – How to Install WordPress Manually on your Web Server
Jun 05, 2012, by admin
wordpress Tutorial for Beginners
What is WordPress
WordPress is an open source CMS, regularly used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today. A popular and powerful blogging application software. WordPress is an excellent open source web publishing system or content management system (CMS). WordPress is software you can use to create a web site or blog. WordPress is a free, open-source blog publishing system, which is customizable and can be adapted for different uses. A highly-flexible open-souce content management system and blog publishing platform. The application itself is free, requiring only web hosting to run. There is a bit of a learning curve, and there is no formal support structure.
What is WordPress Used for
WordPress is a system for managing website content (texts and pictures). It is especially useful for creating and maintaining a weblog as it allows assigning every entry to one or several categories, which can be created at will, and the respective navigation items are added automatically. …
An open source content management system (CMS) that allows users with little or no web development training to publish their own blog or website. It is theme or template-based and uses the php programming language and MySQL database connectivity.
The most popular CMS ( Content Management System) on the webs today is WordPress making website creation very simple. Your will install this inside your cpanel hosting and is typically installed with the press of a button in Fantastico or with something like Simple Scripts.
It provides a simple user interface that non-technical people can use with relative ease and it works well with most web applications and widgets. It is the most popular CMS in the world. …
How to Install WordPress Manually on your Web Server
Step 1: Download the installation archive from the WordPress download section by clicking on “Download.zip” or “Download.tar.gz”. This way you will get the latest stable release of the WordPress application.
Step 2: Upload it to the public_html folder of your hosting account. You can do that via FTP with a client like Filezilla or via cPanel -> File Manager -> Upload file(s). This way, after the installation is completed, the WordPress blog will appear once you visit your website.
Another option is to create a subfolder in your hosting account and upload the archive in it. The WordPress installation will be accessible at:
http://www.yourdomainname.com/subfolder
Step 3: When you are in cPanel -> File Manager, navigate to the uploaded file and extract it by clicking on “Extract”. The other option is to extract the file on your computer and then to upload the content in the desired folder via FTP.
Step 4: Once the files are extracted in the desired folder, you should create a MySQL database for WordPress. You can do that from cPanel -> MySQL Databases. Detailed instructions how to do so can be found in our MySQL tutorial.
Step 5: Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and edit it. Fill in your database connection details in the following lines:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ”); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ”); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
Please note that you should type the full name of the database and the MySQL user. Let’s assume that your cPanel username is “myarticle” and your domain name is myarticle.com. If the name of your database is “wordpress”, the user is “wpuser” and the password for the MySQL user is “0la;mip” you should update the lines in the wp-config.php file to:
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘mynewsit_wpress’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘mynewsit_wpuser’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘0la;mip’);
Step 6: Open in your browser:
www.yourdomainname.com/where_wordpress_is_extracted/wp-admin/install.php
This should set up the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.
Step 7: The installation procedure is finished. You can save the administrative username and the password. You will need them to access the WordPress installation admin backend in the future.
