How To Install WordPress 3.0 – Step-By-Step Guide

WordPress is the most professional and the most customizable blogging platform. Installing WordPress will definitely help you create a great blog.
Many bloggers have questions about how to install WordPress on your own hosting server, how to setup etc. This is the complete step-by-step guide on how to setup domain name and hosting, setup MySQL and how to install WordPress 3.0 on your own server.
Get domain name and hosting
First step to is to buy your domain name and hosting through GoDaddy .

Setup your hosting account
Hosting plan use is “Economy” ($4.74 a month when buying a year)
Login to your GoDaddy account
Click on Hosting and chose My Hosting Account
Find your hosting plan and click on Setup Account
Select the checkbox and click Next
Chose username and password you would like to use for your FTP hosting access and click Next
Chose Select a domain from this account and find your domain name
Finish the setup by clicking Submit
Get your FTP Account Information
When your hosting has been setup you will get an email titled “Hosting Account Setup” from GoDaddy
Find your “FTP Account Information” in the email
Hosting/FTP User Name: your usernameWeb Site URL: your domain URLFTP Site URL: your FTP URLYour Web Site Visitor Statistics: Your stats URL
Create MySQL database
Login to your GoDaddy account
Click on Hosting and chose My Hosting Account
Find your domain name and click on Manage Account
In the upper menu click on Databases and chose MySQL
Click on Create Database
Write description, chose username and password
Click OK and wait until GoDaddy sets your MySQL
When the MySQL has been setup, click on the pencil to “Edit/view details” and save the following details:
MySQL Database Information Status:Setup Host Name: your host nameDatabase Name: database name you have chosenDatabase Version: 4.1Description: description you have chosenUser Name: username you have chosen
Downloading the files
To install WordPress, go to WordPress.org and download the latest version
WordPress 3.0 comes in a .zip file so unzip it
Now you have a WordPress folder
Find the wp-config-sample.php file and rename it to wp-config.php
Open wp-config.php in text editor (like NotePad++) and find this part:
// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** ///** The name of the database */define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere‘);/** MySQL database username */define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere‘);/** MySQL database password */define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere‘);/** MySQL hostname */define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost‘);
Take your MySQL Database Information you have from GoDaddy and insert them in places where I have marked with bold:
Your MySQL Database Name should replace putyourdbnamehere
Your MySQL User Name should replace usernamehere
Your MySQL password should replace yourpasswordhere
Your MySQL Host Name should replace localhost
Now find following in your wp-config.php:
define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’);
Visit secret key and copy details you get there and insert them instead of the above.
Save wp-config.php
Login to your web hosting
Get a FTP client (like FileZilla)
Open FTP client and login to your hosting account using your FTP account information
Place all the files from your WordPress folder onto your server
In this example I will place all files in root directory (http://www.yourdomain.com). The directory will look something like this when the files are uploaded:

Install WordPress by going to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
This is what you will see when you enter the address:
Fill in your Blog Title
Fill in Your E-mail
Make sure your Allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati is checked
Click on Install WordPress
Next screen you see should say Success! and should give you your Username and Password.
Click on Log In.
Now you will see your blog’s Log In page. Make sure to bookmark that URL.
Fill in the Username and Password you have just received
Click on Log In.
Now you will see your Dashboard where all the optimization, customization, post writing, plugin installing, comment moderating takes place.
This means your blog has been setup and is live online. Check your http://www.domainname.com to see it. You will also get an email titled New Blog which includes your URL and your username / password. That was it, it is very simple to install WordPress. Enjoy your new blog!

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