Installing a Wordpress Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2006 in How To, blogs, Wordpress by bjones

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I’m about to install a new Wordpress blog, so I thought I’d fully document the process, so here goes.
(I’m assuming that you have a hosting plan and a domain name set up already.)

1. Create a Database
You can usually do this in your hosting control panel. If you aren’t sure how to do this, ask your hosting company. After you have set it up, you should have 4 pieces of information about the database.
1. The Database Name (DB_NAME)
2. The Database Username (DB_USER)
3. The Database Password (DB_PASSWORD)
4. The Database Host (DB_HOST)

Without these 4 things, you won’t be able to set up Wordpress. Again, contact your hosting company’s tech support if you have any trouble with this.

2. Download the current version of Wordpress.
This is easy. Just go to wordpress.org/download/, and download the current version. You have a choice between the ZIP file or the TAR.GZ file. I think the TAR.GZ file may be smaller, but I always download the ZIP.

3. Uncompress the Wordpress ZIP file.
Again this is easy.

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