Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of faq/wordpress/WordPressInstall


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Dec 22, 2007, 5:48:13 AM (18 years ago)
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Jamie McClelland
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Woops - we have a wordpress wiki site - no need to exclamation out those camelCaps

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    1 == How Do I Install !WordPress blog software? ==
     1== How Do I Install WordPress blog software? ==
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    3 Installing !WordPress to your MFPL website is easy and should only take a few minutes, leaving you free to design and configure your blog rather than fuss with complicated installation procedures.
     3Installing WordPress to your MFPL website is easy and should only take a few minutes, leaving you free to design and configure your blog rather than fuss with complicated installation procedures.
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    5 This instructional is a modest adaptation of the official "Famous !WordPress 5-Minute Install" guide
     5This instructional is a modest adaptation of the official "Famous WordPress 5-Minute Install" guide
    66http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
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    8  1. Contact MFPL support and request that they kindly create a MySQL database for !WordPress on your server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
    9  1. Download and unzip the latest !WordPress package using one of the following methods:
     8 1. Contact MFPL support and request that they kindly create a MySQL database for WordPress on your server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
     9 1. Download and unzip the latest WordPress package using one of the following methods:
    1010  * (Recommended) If you're more comfortable editing files on your own machine and then uploading them to the server via SFTP, browse to http://wordpress.org/download/ and download the preferred archive (Zip or Gzip) then extract the archive to a handy location.
    1111  * 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 excellent instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Step_1:_Download_and_Extract
    1212 1. Rename the ''wp-config-sample.php'' file in the directory you just created to ''wp-config.php''.
    1313 1. Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details, which MFPL support has hopefully by now placed in your FTP root and/or sent you by GPG email.
    14  1. Place the !WordPress files in the desired location on the web server:
    15   * 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).
    16  * If you want to have your !WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. !http://example.com/blog/), rename the directory wordpress to the name you'd like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the !WordPress installation in a subdirectory called "blog", you should rename the directory called "wordpress" to "blog" and upload it to the root directory of your web server (/home/members/[your_username]/sites/[yourdomain.org]/web).
    17  1. Run the !WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser (which should be !FireFox).
    18   * If you installed !WordPress in the webroot directory, you should visit: !http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
    19   * If you installed !WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: !http://yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
     14 1. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on the web server:
     15  * 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).
     16 * If you want to have your !WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. !http://example.com/blog/), rename the directory wordpress to the name you'd like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the WordPress installation in a subdirectory called "blog", you should rename the directory called "wordpress" to "blog" and upload it to the root directory of your web server (/home/members/[your_username]/sites/[yourdomain.org]/web).
     17 1. Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser (which should be !FireFox).
     18  * If you installed WordPress in the webroot directory, you should visit: !http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
     19  * If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: !http://yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
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    2121And that's it! Now you can start configuring and theming your blog!