First what is wordpress:
wordpress is an open source blog publishing application
2 ways to install:
1. If your hosting Fantastico-enabled cPanel like Lunarpages or Blue Host
2. If your Hosting non Fantastico-enabled cPanel like ixwebhosting
First: installing in Fantastico-enabled cPanel:
Log in to your hosting cpanel by Typing yourdomain/cpanel in Internet explorer or by sign in to you hosting account and go to Control Panel
Find your Fantastico icon and click on it
On side menue click on wordpress
Click in New Installation
Choose your domain or sub-domain you want to put your site on it then fill all the form then click Install wordpress “remember username and password”
Now your site is ready
Just type your domain or sub-domain in internet explorer to see the site working ok
Second: installing in Non Fantastico-enabled cPanel:
In this case you have to download Wordpress to your pc from this link http://wordpress.org/
Unzip Wordpress file then open Wordpress folder and find file name wp-config-sample.php
Open this file wp-config-sample.php with the Notepad,
Now we have to change
Mysql : database name, database user name, database password, database host
So we have to do Mysql Database from our cpanel to have these date to change it
How to Make MYSQL Data Base:
1. Sign in to your Control panel
2. Find Mysql icon, click on it
3. Make new database
4. make new user under database
After you did this now you have the data you need
Go to the file you wp-config-sample.php that you opened with notepad and change the data as below
Rename wp-config-sample.php file to be wp-config.php
Now : We need to upload files in wordpress folder to your hosting folder
We need to have FTP client software the best for this Filezilla u can download for free from this link http://filezilla-project.org/
After you download run it and put your domain and your hosting username and password then click connect
Once you connected upload the files you have in wordpress folder to your domain or sub-domain folder
Now we ready type in internet explorer yourdomain/wp-admin once your click enter wordpress form will open fill it you done next page will give you your admin password save it with you … login with it and your site is ready .
To work with site to add posts or pages or to control your site the link is yourdomain/wp-admin
will come to you login page:
Enter Your User Name amd Password to login
Now You can Manage your site
Step2 Done : we will meet in step 3 to see how to make look like a good website
