Before you install WordPress, you’ll definitely want to see all the options on the table. You can either go on http://wordpress.com/ and sign up a blog for free over there or you can download the latest version and install it on a server/webhosting. Since this is a tutorial in how-to, you’ll definitely want to download WordPress and have your own blog on your own domain.
Requirements
- PHP 4.3 or greater
- MySQL 4.1.2 or greater
- Mod Rewrite enabled on a LAMP/WAMP Server
- FTP enabled server (prompt host/username/password)
- MySQL database (prompt host/database name/username/password)
- Dedication to update!
After confirming the requirements, go ahead and download the latest version of WordPress at http://wordpress.org.
Once you downloaded the zip/tar onto your desktop, go ahead and extract all the files to the desktop.
This next part you will need an FTP client (http://filezilla-project.org/).
- Open the FTP Client
- On the top bar (quick connect), fill out the host, username, and password
- Go to the directory you want wordpress (for mine its the HTTP root NOT the main root)
- On your desktop open the wordpress folder and select all the files then drag it into the server windows on the FileZilla (or your own FTP client). The reason you don’t drag the WordPress folder itself because then the url would be http://yourdomain.com/wordpress instead of http://yourdomain.com
- Once all the files have been uploaded, close everything out, open your browser and go to the URL you uploaded wordpress to.
If you have your database information ready, go ahead and click create configuration. Fill out all the database information in its respected spots.
Once you submitted the information and the database has been confirmed, copy down the password it generates (I just copy paste it because you can change it right after). After that click login.
Username: admin
Password: (CTRL + V) if you copied the text.
Once you login, on the top a yellow bar with red text prompts you to change your password. Click yes then change the password (scroll down) to whatever you want.