I’ve mentioned about WordPress as one of the popular CMSes for blogging and content publishing. If you’d like to set up a self-hosted WordPress blog, I hereby show you the 3 simple steps that you can get it going. Note: A self-hosted WordPress Blog means that you have to have your own web host, in this case, you’ll have to get a paid web hosting with PHP, MySQL supports and for better performance. A shared web hosting which will cost you around $90 a year, will be sufficient for a fresh start.
The three simple steps to get your WordPress blog rolling is
1.
Download WordPress package from WordPress.org. Unpack it, use an FTP software such as
Core FTP Lite software (as shown below) to upload the entire wordpress folder into your web folder within your web hosting account. In most cases, it’s either the
www or
public_html folder. Once you’ve completed the upload, you should now have the folder
wordpress residing in your www or public_html folder. In this case we recommend that you rename the wordpress folder now to a more meaningful name such as
blog. So you can access your blog using the URL http://www.yourwebsitename.com/blog.
2. Login into the CPANEL of your web hosting account, and go to
MySQL Database Wizard, and create a database and add a user with password and add the necessary privileges to the user.
3. Go the blog folder in the www folder within your FTP session, copy the wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, and then edit the wp-config.php for the followings:
// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’);
/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’);
/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’);
Replace putyourdbnamehere with the database name that you’ve created in step 2. And replace the usernamehere and yourpasswordhere with the database user and password respectively which you’ve just created in step 2
4. Open your browser type on the URL on the address bar e.g http://www.yourwebsitename.com/blog, the WordPress Wizard will then prompt you through setting up the blog title, and other settings for your WordPress blog. And after these few steps you should have your blog up and running
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