Hey folks. Olly Connelly here, Olly at guvnr.com, if you want to drop me an email. Today, I am going to show you how very, very simply it is to setup a WordPress installation and so here we go. Well let’s do it.
So first of all, you go WordPress.org and you can download the latest version. Here is one I prepared earlier that I have downloaded. The latest version; there you, WordPress 2.7.1; all zipped out. And it’s in there. You want to open that file and you fill these folders and files in there. You want to basically drag those up to your remote server or wherever is it you want to host; your new blog. And take a little time to copy that over. And then you want to open a new tab. And you want to navigate to that folder that you have entered those files into.
So for example, in my case, I’ve actually popped those on my local host into a folder called WordPress. You may well have them at for example like—I could well say in my domain.com. And if you’ve put them straight into the root, you would not have anything there at all or you might have something like blog. If you put them into a folder called blog and put; as I say; I put them into a folder called WordPress. And this is the page that transpires.
Now it doesn’t seem to be a vp-config.php file. Okay, well, never mind what that says. Just create a configuration file and we’re going to need a few details about our database because what WordPress needs to do is it needs to link these files that we’ve uploaded. We need to link them to a database, so that you can play around with data as you blog.
And so you need the database name, the database user name, database password and a couple of other things as well. So, let’s go. And here we have the screen saying Database Name, whatever it is. User Name, Password, Database Host and Table Prefix, okay.
Well this is where most people try part it’s connecting with database to the—to all those file that we’ve uploaded. So pay attention here, okay. You need to go to your ISP or to wherever it is that your blog is going to be administered. To some administration panel that it might as well look like this; it might look similar. This is cPanel; very commonly used with quality modern ISPs. And in here, one of the options is to play around with your MySQL databases.
You can setup databases using things like PostgreSQL and stuff like that but MySQL is the most common one to use. And in my experience, it’s very, very easy one to use as well. So, you would click on that.
Now I’m not going to do it here because I am going to setup my database in a different way in just a second. But if you were to click through this link, it would take you to an option to create a new database and you would just call that database whatever you want to call it like WordPress for example or hopefully something a little bit more complicated so it’s less easy to be hacked. And then click on Create Now. And you’ve got yourself a new database. And the way you would get into it is exactly the same way you would get into the administration area if you have a website using your user name and password.
Okay, so that is one way to setup the database. Now, I am going to use a slightly different way to setup my database. I am going to use this tool PHP in my admin, just to show you another way to do this. And this is the opening page when you login here with your user name and password. And then you can just call it what you like. I am just going to call it WordPress for the purposes in this simple tutorial. I am going to leave this up at settings as they are because they look good. You should have that, utf8_unicode_ci, if your connection Collation. And it should just say Collation here. If it doesn’t, you can find it amongst here. And then create that. There you go. Database WordPress has been created.
So that is exactly the same theory as creating that database through your ISP’s admin panel using the MySQL databases tab, okay. And then you need to go back to this page here and put in the details that you will have used to create your database.
So in my case, I have cached that name WordPress for my database name. I would advise you to make it something a little bit more complex. This is—a computer to easy. The User Name is the user name that you use to get into your administration area or your database administration area. As indeed the passwords, correlates with password that you use to get into your administration; all of your database and which normally with most ISPs is the same password you use to get into the backend full stop of your website.
local host, you don’t want to change that. That is the pretty much always exactly localized as its default. And the Table Prefix, well the Table Prefix is you want to change really. I am not going to bother showing you how to do that here because I’ve already done that in another tutorial. If you go guvnr.com and you search for something like web security or you could just Plugin Table Prefix, something like that, anything like that. It will come up with ten top picks for securing your WordPress blog against hackers. And one of those will tell you how to change your Table Prefix along with a whole bunch of other stuff which is useful to safeguard your WordPress blog.
And so, I am going to put in my user name and my password in just a minute because I am not going to show any potential hackers out there where they are and then click submit. And that brings us to this page, WordPress All right sparkly! You’ve made it though blah de blah de blah. Run the install, okay.
So well, what is going to happen here then is basically, we go back to that database? We’ve created a database but if we look at it, there are no cables found in the database. So, by running the installation, it will create the tables that we need. So we use—give this is blog title. So I am feeling very imaginative today and the E-mail, equally imaginative.
And then here, allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati, most of us will want to keep that checked. Me, for this, I am going to bother because test installation. But you can risk being we’d want to keep that checked and then Install WordPress.
Okay, Success! WordPress has been installed. We’re you expecting more steps? Sorry to disappoint. The User name is admin. So that is easy enough to remember but the password, now you really, really need to copy that because if you forget it, you’re going to do the whole thing again. So copy that. And then you can login.
And just to prove that it is successful, if we go back here to our database WordPress here where it said no tables and refresh that, we now have a table there. So, that was all pretty how you do it and we can login using admin and then password, it will copied. And you can have it Remember me if you want. And it probably would be sensible.
So—you don’t forget that, forget the screen here. It doesn’t matter. And there you go. We can see our site or our blog over there and just to show that that database is working and if I put in a new post, ‘my first post.’ And blah de blah and Publish that.
Now, I am going to go back here and refresh, we’ve got a new post. My first post blah de blah. Okay, so that’s it. It is as simple as that installing your WordPress really, really not that difficult. You just go to bear in mind that it is you know, User name and your password for that database.
And if you’ve got any queries about that, your IFP will help you to retrieve those details. You may go to any queries at all, any questions, drop me a line at guvnr.com or you can check out all our tips in tutorials, ways to secure your WordPress blog against hacking and a whole bunch of other stuff here on my website and that’s it. Really I hope that’s been useful and thanks for watching. Well, you know ciao.
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