What did I learn today ?

Disclaimer: As most readers of this blog know I am an IT teacher so for my diploma students here is an update version of wordpress’s famous 5- minute install readme.html file.

Even though most of you don’t read the readme or all install instructions!! -Smart people know to read the readme properly first. But having said that many readme’s have a real expection of assumed knowledge so this is based on my what I know about my students assumed knowledge

The install instructions on wordpress are great but below is a short version of that and a better version of the readme that comes with the down load of wordpress 2.7

Updated WordPress: Famous 5-minute install

1. Down load the latest version of WordPress from www.wordpress.org
2. Unzip the package into an empty directory. (for my student this will be our local Dreamweaver folder so this about how you are going to work with it!!)
3. Login into your control panel and create a new database and user for this wordpress installation (if you don’t understand this step check with your hosting provider about creating a mysql database and user with full privileges)
4. Once you have these details
   -Open up wp-config-sample.php on your local machine with a text editor like notepad or similar and fill in your database connection details. (my student know I will have define a site within Dreamweaver and will open wp-config-sample.php within Dreamweaver because I am about to customise wordpress to the max but any text editor will be fine)
5. Save the file you have edited as wp-config.php
6. Upload everything!!!!! – this begs the question to where??- do you want your domain to be the blog or do you want this blog to be a subsection of your site- think ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT- then either upload everything to the root of your domain if you want your whole site to be the blog or to a specific folder if you want your blog to be a subsection of your domain. (If that made no sense don’t hesitate to comment me – student or otherwise)
7. Open http://yourdomainname/installfolder/wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, look at the error properly – most of the time it what you entered into wp-config.php file, and try again. Note the password given to you. And comment me with full details and I’ll have a look and let you know if it was your config or upload that is wrong
8. The install script should then send you to the login page. If you get this far WOOHOO.
9. Sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change the password.

The next post next week is how to test your wordpress install.

If this post was helpful please let me know- I love wordpress so will happily have a look and write a post about your install.

Tags: wordpress

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