I’ve tried several times installing wordpress on my own hosting. However, I’ve always failed. The main cause of my failure was my ignorance of the role of database in a website. Well, you know, as I’ve always told you times and times again, I’m still a newbie in this continent, man. Another reason is because articles about how to install WordPress manually usually starts from “downloading” the .zip file from http://wordpress.org and then uploading it to our FTP. Well, I don’t mean to find a scapegoat, but I can’t lie that such factor contributed to my failure in installing WordPress.
Okey, then, let’s see the complete and simple way of installing WordPress on your website.
1. Go to MySQL section of your website. If you use cPanel, you can find it clearly with a catchy icon.
2. Create a new database, and remember the database name, database username, database password, and database host
3. Download WordPress CMS from http://wordpress.org
4. Unzip the .zip file
5. Open a file named wp-config-sample.php with a text editor (I usually use wordpad) and fill in your database detail in the appropriate place. For example, when you find “DB_NAME”, just write the name of your database, “DB_USRNAME”, just write your database username, and so on.
6. Save and close wp-config-sample.php
7. Rename wp-config-sample.php into wp-config.php
8. Upload all the files onto the public_html folder of your server
9. Done with the transfer process, open your web browser and go to http://nameofyoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php (if you install WordPress in the main folder, but if you install it in a special folder called blog, please type http://nameofyoursite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php )
10. Then you just need to give an appropriate username and password.
That’s it! You can go blogging. I’ve just intalled my newest blog about my daily life.
