Step Five: Run the Wordpress Installation Script
Enter the path to the installation script into your browser’s url address field
Once the files are uploaded to your host’s server, it’s time to run the WordPress installation script. By running this, WordPress will create all the tables it needs into your database. Remember those database settings we inserted earlier?
To accomplish this, you need to enter the path to the install file into your browser’s address bar. This address will vary, depending on whether you moved these files to the root directory or into a subdirectory like I did.
If you moved the files to your root directory, you would enter the url like this: http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin/install.php
If you put your files into a subdirectory, you would enter something similar to this: http://yourdomainname.com/yoursubdirectory/wp-admin/install.php
Enter your initial blog settings
You will then be presented with the first installation screen. It’s pretty self-explanatory, just enter your Blog title and the email address you’d like associated with your blog. You also have the option to “Allow my blog to appear in search engines…”. You want to make sure that’s checked, unless of course you don’t want anyone to find you blog;)
Congratulations, you’ve just installed WordPress!
Congrats! One thing to remember when seeing this page is to write down the password that WordPress creates for you. Don’t worry, you can easily change this password later to something easier for you to remember, but for now, make sure you record it. Now click the “wp-login.php” link.
Log in to your WordPress blog administration area
Now you can log in and start setting up your blog!
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Great job keeping the installation instructions simple.
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Very good stuff. I keep meaning to write a Wordpress for newbies on my site too… But I still haven’t gotten around to it.
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A very nice tutorial. I now try to transfer my blog about French Language Learning to wordpress and this will be very useful. thanks.
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this helps a lot I usually have a lot of problems loading wordpress and this guide really helped me out.
Excellent visual guides! http://www.becomeablogger.com is providing video visual guides, although they don’t specifiy. I think that people have trouble going forward after the blog has been set up, which is where I am at this point. The Video Guide was excellent, it stated the same things you did in your presentation, but then there is no assistance going forward. Hopefully as I continue to dig further, there are tutorials on how to upload photos, videos, and edit the website as well as the theme colors.
-Stacy
One of the better WP install guides I’ve found. Hope it makes it to the top of the Serps.
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