WordPress: Manual Installation Of WordPress
There are other ways to install wordpress, and this is how to do it manually.
Many web hosts now offer tools, like Fantastico and Softaculous, to automatically install WordPress for you.
If you don’t have these programs follow this tutorial.
Step 01.
Download WordPress, unzip the folder.
Step 02.
Log into your cPanel and create a MySQL database and user. (Click here if you don’t know how to make one. You may have to contact your host to get one.)
Step 03.
Now open the wp-config-sample.php in the main wordpress directory. Fill in your MySQL information you just created into the places where I’ve circled.
Step 04.
Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php.
Step 05.
Place the wordpress files in the desired location on your remote server:
- If you want wordpress to be the root of your domain, http://www.yoursite.com, upload all contents of the unzipped wordpress folder (not including the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.
- If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site, http://www.yoursite.com/blog, rename the wordpress folder to the name you’d like the subdirectory to have, e.g. blog, and upload it to the root directory of your site.
Step 06.
You now need to run the wordpress installation by going to:
- http://www.yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php if it’s in it’s own subdirectory. Change the subdirectory wordpress to whatever you named it.
- http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php if it’s in the root directory.
Step 07.
Go through all what the installation says and fill/change whatever you are told to.
Step 08.
Now delete the install.php file from /wp-admin/ folder and your finished!