Website development becomes very easy with WordPress; using WordPress you can easily setup small professional website & blog
website. To setup & configure WordPress, you must have hosting server and
domain name (eg. www.xyz.com) for your
website. There are plenty of good hosting providers and you can purchase any
packages based on website’s requirements. At the starting phase your website
doesn’t require more web space so it advisable to go with shared hosting at
initial stage, and you can easily switch the hosting packages when your website have good traffic & good rush.
List of few hosting providers are
You can find full list of hosting
providers at http://www.top10bestwebsitehosting.com/
Now, you have hosting server and domain name which going to
be used for WordPress website. Here, we will go through manual wordpress installation.
Let’s do installation step by step
1. Download Latest
Version of WordPress
It requires downloading of latest version of WordPress for
your website, which you can download from www.wordpress.org.
It’s advisable to go with latest version only which has more features and functionality
than previous version.
2. Create Database &
User from cpanel
As WordPress is content management framework, and developed
using PHP (programming language) & MySQL (Database). Every WordPress
website must have database which manage contents of posts, pages, etc. and for
that you need to create database from “database section” of cpanel. You need to
go to “MySQL Database” for creating new database
After creating database, you need to create new user which
use to access database for adding, updating and deleting contents.
From “Add user to Database” section, assign users
to database that you are going to use.
3. Update config.php
file
Now, you have created database and assign users
to database from cpanel. But the question is that how WordPress access database
for managing contents and it manage through config.php file. WordPress comes with file name called
config-sample.php that we need copy and rename it to config.php. After renaming
file, you need to define details of database name, user name & password.
There other setting but it not necessary for now.
4. Upload source
WordPress using FTP Client
After completing all the process, it times to upload source
code to server which we can easily manage with FTP clients; it’s easy to upload
source code using FTP clients.
you can review FTP clients at http://lifehacker.com/5039956/five-best-ftp-clients, and download & use suitable one.
5. Install WordPress
Now, go to URL of website (www.xyz.com) or sub-domain (m.xyz.com) or sub-folder
(xyz.com/m), and will run installation script where you need to provide details
as name of website, username and password to access back-end.
I hope this will help you to setup WordPress on your server. We will check and go through WordPress configuration & customization later on.
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