How to install a WordPress blog

working to install a WordPress blog.

How do I “already in the article use blog hosting services or host yourself? had “raised, speaks very much to suggest that it hosts its own blog on a webspace.

Especially professional bloggers have such complete control, and WordPress is now easier to maintain.

So here are the (detailed) instructions on installing your new WordPress blog.

Download WordPress

The first step leads you to the WordPress homepage. There is always the current version of WordPress for download.

Just click the big blue. “Zip” and then you save the file on its hard disk.

You can download it from WordPress but the original site, but since the German language file is missing. And that is the German version just for that matter.

Later we find on WordPress deutschland.org the updates for WordPress, but that still does not interest us here.

The web hosting prepare

Secondly you need to prepare their own service plan.

For this you should first ensure that the conditions for a WordPress blog are actually met.
PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.0 requires at least WordPress. PHP 5 and MySQL 5 work as well.

Database
WordPress needs a database.

Why are you going now in the management view of your web hosting package. The course looks at every party is different.

With Hostgator , my Hoster is, for example in the left navigation including the item “database”.

If you click it, you will see the existing databases and you can also create new databases. Some provider username and password for the new database will be awarded automatically, others you can choose it myself (but then you should also difficult / not use words guessed).

In any case, you should note that you access the new database. These are the database name, database username and password.

In addition, you need the database host name. This is very often “localhost”, with some providers but also a different URL (eg mysql.domain.com. This information can be found mostly in the FAQ of the hoster.

FTP program
for the second, you also need another FTP program to re-upload WordPress files to the server.

There are of course very many alternatives.Works well as FileZilla . And the program is free.

Because, of course, not everyone can upload any unauthorized files to your webspace, you will need for FTP upload even a user name, password and FTP address. The latter is usually the normal domain of your site, eg www.euredomain.com.

User name and password for FTP can be found in the rule also in the administration view of a hosting account. With All-Inkl.com the two figures are under the menu item “FTP”.

Upload

Now you can upload the WordPress files to your webspace.

For this you need the downloaded file unzip wordpress for now. Windows takes a zip decompressor from home with already. So just right click and “Extract” button.

In the folder created by unzipping “WordPress” you will find a file called “wp-config-sample.php”

This you are calling to ask in “wp-config.php“. So just “sample” removed from the file name.

And then you open the “wp-config.php” file with the Windows text editor. Now here you have the database data that you’ve just listed, enter.

The following lines need to be adjusted:

define ('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');

define ('DB_USER', 'username here');

define ('DB_PASSWORD', 'your password here');

define ('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

The first line comes in place of "putyourdbnamehere" the database name.

In the second line you replace “username here” with your database user name.
In the third line has the database password pure (instead of “your password here”).
And on the fourth line is usually “localhost” pure. With some providers but as I said a different database host URL.

If you have entered it correctly (It is important that you know the details exactly as typing, as they were generated at the creation of the database. Note So even upper-and lowercase letters.), Then you save the file and it goes to upload .

For this you start the FTP program and then give your FTP information (FTP login, FTP password and FTP URLs).

Now you load the contents of the folder “wordpress” completely up to your webspace.

Think before you ask whether you want the blog directly in the directory have your domain (ie blog is accessible under www.domain.com) or whether you want the blog in a subdirectory (eg www.domain.com/blog/).

In the latter, you must first create a subdirectory and then download the contents of the folder “wordpress” there.

The upload may take a while.

Installation

These are all uploaded wordpress files, it goes to the installation.

This you call the installation file “install.php” on. This is in Odner “wp-admin”.

Have you uploaded directly into the WordPress directory domain that the path is “www.deinedomain.com/ wp-admin / install.php”.

If you have uploaded it into a subdirectory, eg “www.deinedomain.com / subdirectory / wp-admin / install.php”.

First there is a greeting.

Among these are two fields. There you type in the blog title, so the name of your blog. But these you can easily change later.

And below you give one your email address.

Moreover, so please make a check mark at “I want my blog appear in search engines like Google or Technorati.”. Otherwise your blog will not be included in Google.

Then click on the button “Install WordPress”.

Everything worked out the following screen appears.

Then there is also the access password for your blog, which you must write to you necessarily. Again, it is important that the password is quoted exactly as it stands there (eg case-sensitive).

Now clicking on the “Register” button.

Then you will see the normal login screen by WordPress.

Here you give the username “admin” and listed just one password. So you do not always have to log in again, you can check “Remember me” set.

You ought to be done only if no one has unauthorized access to your computer.

When you click the button “Register” button, you will go to the admin of your WordPress blog.

And at this point the installation is now over. That was fast and easy.

Possible Problems

Most of the installation works smoothly WordPress. However, should an error occur, do not panic.

PHP error
appears funny code. For example, the following:

<Php define ('WP_USE_THEMES', true); require ('/ wp-blog-header.php.'); ?>

This usually means that your webspace does not support PHP. Especially for very cheap or even free hosting packages, it may be that PHP is not included. You ought to clarify and possibly switch to another plan with PHP.

Database error
when the message “Error Establishing Database Connection” error, then the two have reasons.

First, it could be because there is no database available. Because you either have forgotten to create the database (see above) or your web hosting package includes no database.

On the other hand it could also be faulty database access. This means that you have in the “wp-config” file, the data are wrong in it as a space or too much or something similar. Please check this again.