How to start a Blog – installing WordPress Blog

Being first post, I think it would be appropriate to start with “How to install WordPress Blog” although I am pretty sure almost everyone already know it

I recommend manual installation rather than installing using Fantastico.
It’s not confirmed, but, some of my friends said they had tough time trying to upgrade when they installed using Fantastico.

Fantastico is handy popular programs installer within cPanel.

Manual installation isn’t complicated nor take long time, thus, why take chance by installing using Fantastico?

It just take about 5 minutes!
So, here we go…

1. Create hosting acct for your domain.
2. Create Database.
   1. Login to your cPanel.
   2. Click on “MySQL Databases”.
   3. Under “Create New Database”, type in the database name.
   4. Click “Create Database” button.
   5. Click “Go Back” link.
   6. Scroll down little and under “MySQL Users – Add New User”, type in Username.
   7. Type in Password twice, one for each password input field or simply click “Password Generator” button. Make sure you keep database name and password in secure place.
   8. Click “Create User”.
   9. Click “Go Back” link.
   10. Scroll down to near bottom, under “Add User To Database”, Click “Add” button. If you have more than one database and/or user, be sure to find database name and user you meant to use for WordPress blog.
   11. Put check mark on for “ALL PRIVILEGES”.
   12. Click “Make Changes” button. This completes creating database for wordpress. You can log out of cPanel for now if you wish.
3. Download WordPress installation zip file from WordPress.
4. Upload installation zip file to your home folder. If you want to install wordpress blog in your subfolder, upload installation zip file into your subfolder.
5. Login to your cPanel.
6. Click on “File Manager”.
7. Click on wordpress installation zip file, “wordpress-2.9.1.zip”. Your installation version may differ.
8. Click “Extract” on top file Manager menu. This will extract installation files and folders into newly created folder named “wordpress”. You can remove installation .zip file if you wish.
9. Double click “wordpress” folder.
10. Choose all files and folders within “wordpress” folder by clicking “Select all” on top menu within File Manager.
11. Click “Move File” on top menu within File Manager.
12. Type in “/public_html/” or your home folder.
13. Click “Move Files” button.
14. Remove “wordpress” folder when all files and folders are moved.
15. Click file “wp-config-sample.php
16. Click “Edit” button on top menu within File Manager.
17. Find line #19 and replace ‘putyourdbnamehere’ with your database name.
18. Find line #22 and replace ‘usernamehere’ with your database user name.
19. Find line #25 and replace ‘yourpasswordhere’ with your database password.
20. Click “Save Changes” button on top of the page.
21. Click “Rename” button on top menu within File Manager.
22. Type in wp-config.php and Click “Rename File” button. Now, you can log out of cPanel.
23. Type in http://Your_Site_name.com/wp-admin/install.php
24. Make sure you keep password in secure place.

That’s it!

This may look like very long steps, but, it really isn’t.
Whole thing will take just about 5 minutes or less