Title: How to Install WordPress and launch your Website in minutes
1How to Install WordPress on a Web Server and
launch your Website in minutes
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3Thank you to our host and Sponsors
4Big brands powered by WordPress
International
Local
- The White House
- US Embassy websites
- CNN Cable News Network
- Facebook New room
- Forbes
- Bloomberg
- PoTUSTimes.com
- Tech Crunch
- eBay, Sony, General Motors , UPS,
CNN, Reuters, The New York Times, Samsung, IBM,
HostGator, Blue Host, 1 and 1, Go Daddy
- Nile Post
- The Independent
- The Pacific Hotel
- SWID Uganda
- Mbarara News
- Go Tech UG
5WordPress Website Show Case
https//wordpress.org/showcase/
Show case site URL
The Obama Foundation www.Obama.org
The White House www.whitehouse.gov wh.gov
Beyonce.com www.beyonce.com
Angry Birds www.angrybirds.com
This is Finland www.finland.fi
Ariana Grande www.arianagrande.com
The City University of New York www2.cuny.edu
The Walt Disney Company www.thewaltdisneycompany.com
Sony Music www.sonymusic.com
Microsoft News Center news.microsoft.com
Tech Crunch www.techcrunch.com
NGINX www.NGINX.com
6Install WordPress in 6 steps
- Step 1 Download WordPress
- Step 2 Upload WordPress to Hosting Account
/XXAMP/WAMP /LAMP - Step 3 Create MySQL Database and User
- Step 4 Configure wp-config.php
- Step 5 Run the Installation
- Step 6 Complete the Installation
7Step 1 Download WordPress
- Download the WordPress package to your local
computer from http//wordpress.org/download/. - 2. Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your
local computer.
8Step 2 Upload WordPress to Hosting Account
- There are three available options for uploading
WordPress to a hosting account. - 1. Upload via FTP - Please see FTP Getting
Started for more information. - 2. Upload via File Manager - Please see How to
Upload Using the File Manager for instructions. - 3. Upload via SSH - Please see How to Get and Use
SSH Access for instructions.
9Step 3 Create MySQL Database and User
- WordPress stores its information in a database.
Therefore, a database will need to be created. - Log into cPanel.
- In the Databases section, click the MySQL
Database Wizard icon. - For Step 1 Create A Database, enter the database
name and click Next Step. - For Step 2 Create Database Users, enter the
database user name and password and click Create
User. - For Step 3 Add User to the Database, click
the All Privileges checkbox and click Next Step. - For Step 4 Complete the task, make note of the
database name, username and password, as you will
need them for Step 4 below.
10Step 4 Configure wp-config.php
- define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here')/
MySQL database username /define('DB_USER',
'username_here')/ MySQL database password
/define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here') - On the right side of the File Manager screen,
locate the wp-config-sample.php file. - Right click on the file, select Rename and change
the name of the file to wp-config.php. Click
the Rename File button. - Right-click on the wp-config.php file and
select Code Edit. When the file opens, look for
the following information
11Step 5 Run the Installation
- Open a new browser window and go to the
installation page to run the installation script.
Depending on where you installed the script, you
will find it at either of the following URLs - http//example.com/wp-admin/install.php
http//example.com/site/wp-admin/install.php - Be sure to replace example.com in the example
above with your actual domain name. - You should now see a welcome page that says
"Welcome to the Famous Five minute WordPress
installation process!"
12Step 6 Complete the Installation
- On this page, fill in the fields for
- Site Name
- Username
- Password (needs to be entered twice)
- Email address (login information will be sent to
this email address) - Select whether or not to have the search engines
index the site - Click Install Now, and you should be taken to the
final screen, showing the following message
13Yahoo!! WordPress Installed!
14Food for thought
15Any Questions?
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