Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of faq/wordpress/WordPressInstall

Timestamp:

Feb 12, 2015, 2:16:58 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

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faq/wordpress/WordPressInstall

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   * (Recommended) If you're more comfortable editing files on your own machine and then uploading them to the server via SFTP, [http://wordpress.org/download/ browse and download] the preferred archive (Zip or Gzip) then extract the archive to a handy location.
   * Alternately, if you are modestly comfortable with the Linux command-line interface and want to save some time, you can use wget to copy the archive directly to your account. You may later wish you had the files on your local machine, though, as it is likely you will want to edit themes or tweak other settings in a non-live environment. Anyway, to use the CLI method, check out these [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Step_1:_Download_and_Extract excellent instructions].  
- 1. Rename the ''wp-config-sample.php'' file in the directory you just created to ''wp-config.php''.
- 1. Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details as you entered them in the first step, when you created your database.
+ 1. Rename the ''wp-config-sample.php'' file in the directory you just created to ''wp-config.php''. If you are doing this from the command line, type:
+{{{
+mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
+}}}
+ 1. Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details as you entered them in the first step, when you created your database. If you are doing this step from the command line, try:
+{{{
+nano wp-config.php
+}}}
  1. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on the web server:
   * If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. !http://yourdomain.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but EXCLUDING the "wordpress" directory itself) into the root directory of your web server (/home/members/[your_username]/sites/[yourdomain.org]/web) and delete the default ''index.html'' file (this will allow the http://yourdomain.com/ to load the wordpress software).