Quick WordPress Installation Recipe

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Quick WordPress Installation RecipeThe Vancouver WordPress Meetup GroupJune 04, 2015 · @luizalibardi

Ingredients

• Domain• Hosting Company

PHP version 5.2.4 or greater (recommended: PHP 5.4 or greater) MySQL version 5.0 or greater (recommended: MySQL 5.5 or greater)

• Cpanel username and password (provided by hosting company)

• FTP host, user and password (provided by hosting company)

• Any FTP client such as Filezilla• Wordpress

Directions

If the hosting company doesn't provide automatic installation:

Through your Cpanel create a database for WordPress on your web server. The user name should be descriptive of your site and the password should be a long, complex alphanumeric password. Write down the username and password you chose.

Use your FTP client to upload the unzipped WordPress folder to the desired directory on your web server.

Accessing your new site's URL in a web browser. This should be the URL where you uploaded the WordPress files.

Detailed instructions: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

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my_database

my_database_username

localhost

my_database_password

If the web interface doesn't work: Find and rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config. php, then edit the file to add your database information. Upload it to the same location using your FTP client.

root wp-admin wp-content wp-includes index.php license.txt readme.html wp-activate.php wp-blog-header.php wp-comments-post.php wp-config-sample.php wp-cron.php wp-links-opml.php wp-load.php wp-login.php wp-mail.php wp-settings.php wp-signup.php wp-trackback.php xmlrpc.php

Detailed instructions: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php

Blog Title

not-admin

youremail@email.com

not-admin

Enjoy!

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Access the slides at:luizalibardi.com/slides/wp-installation.pdf

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