Step by Step Guild to Install Self Hosted WordPress

I think you want to use wordpress as your blog and want to install it but you don’t have clue that how to do it. Here, I have wrote little guide, which will help you to install wordpress.

But before I will start tutorial on how to install self hosted wordpress , I would like to know you why you need to use wordpress as your blog platform. Here are some feature of wordpress.

Feature of WordPress:

- Easy installation and Upgrade.

- Easy importing post from other blog platform.

- Lot of theme option (WordPress Themes)

- Pasword protected page and posts

- Highly search engine optimized.

- Spam protection on comments

- User registration so you can use them as CMS

- A lot of Plug-Ins ( WordPress Plugins)

So, I hope that wordpress is everthing as our need.

Here is guide to install self hosted wordpress :

Step 1 (Download) :

First of all Download latest version of WordPress from their official site. Click on Download Button to Download Latest version of WordPress.

Step 2 (upload) :

To install wordpress you need to have shared hosting with any provider. as I said in my last post to check review on WebHostingGeeks. Get one and Log in to cpanel. to go to you cpanel you need to login with you username and password to http://yourdomainname.com/cpanel. You will see page similar to below image.

then Click on File manager and you will see page similar to below image.

Upload you downloaded file. Then click on that file and extract that file. You will see folder name wordpress. Go inside that folder and select all file and move wherever you want to install your Blog.

Step 3 (SQL database set up) :

When you log in to your cpanel, you will see icon named My SQL Database Wizard or refer to below image.

Click on it it will ask you to name your SQL database. Give name as your choice. Here are image for that. Click next step.

Then, give user name and password as your choice and click next step. Refer to Image.

You are almost done with SQL databse. After clicked on next step you will see page similar to below. Click on box next to ALL PRIVILEGES, I have highlighted it in RED BOX.

Click next step and look at image. If you can see same in your browser then you are going perfectly.

My SQL database name will be yourname_tutorial, if you have given tutorial name for your database. Remember it or writedown somewhere.

Step 4 (setting in config.php file) :

Go to your file source in cpanel. Find config-sample.php file and rename it to config.php. Click on config.php file and click on edit. Look at image.

Find Code identical to below.
// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name‘); ( this will be yourname_your given name)

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username‘); (cpanel log in username)

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password‘); (cpanel log in password)

Step 5 (Installing wordpress) :

This is last and very easy step. Just visit your blog url. If you have install in your main domain name just go to http://yourname.com or if you install somewhere like http://yourname.com/blog then go to that URL. It will ask you very simple question like your blog name and your email address. Fill them up. After that it will provide you password. copy that and paste somewhere in notepad (it will be to hard to remamber it – you can chage it but later…!). Then it will ask you to log in. Use admin as username and pasword as given. You are donw with installation.

If you have any other question regarding to install wordpress don’t feel shy to ask me. You can contact me via using contact form.