How to Install WordPress in Hosting

While free blogs like those featured on Blogger.com are really easy to setup, they lack the ability to customize like MovableType and WordPress. In this next section of the book I will teach you how to install WordPress on your server. The reason I selected WordPress is that it is easy to install, easy to use and it has a large developer group supporting it online.
Before you begin this tutorial you need to make sure your Web hosting environment supports PHP 4.1 or greater and MySQL 3.23.23 or greater. You can contact your administrator for more information.
In this tutorial I will show you how to setup the database using a visual control panel tool that most Web hosts utilize.

1. Download and Unzip setup

You can download the latest WordPress build here:
Download WordPress Setup
After you download the program to your desktop, unzip the files and place them in a directory called “WordPress” on your local hard drive. For this tutorial I will place my WordPress directory in this location:
C:\website_html\wordpress

2. Setting up the database

This may seem like a scary task, but it really is not all that difficult. Many Web hosting companies provide visual tools to create and maintain databases. For this tutorial I will be using a popular Web hosting control panel, which was provided by www.mediatemple.com. Even if your Web host does not have the exact same control panel, the interface commands are typically the same. This step might be slightly different on your hosting control panel, but it will give you the basic concepts.
I log into my Web site control panel and access the “MySQL Database” control area.
From here I click “Create Database” - you will notice that in this control panel my hosting provider gives the database a name related to my hosting account. In this example I named my database “fuffy_com_-_wordpress”.

3. Set the MySQL Database Password

Using the “MySQL Database” control area, change the name of your database password by clicking on “Change MySQL Password”. Make sure you make it a long one with a good mix of numbers and letters together.

4. Fill in the database configuration settings

Open wp-config-sample.php in the wordpress directory you created earlier on your hard drive and fill in the configuration settings. Fill in your database name and password. For this example this is how mine will look.

5. Save the configuration file

Now save the file out as a new name in the same word-press directory. Call the file wp-config. php. Now upload everything to your hosting environment. Upload your files to the root directory so the URL path to your word-press directory would be something like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress

6. Launch the WordPress Installer

Now point your web browser to this URL (replacing “yourdomain” with your actual web domain name):
http://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
You should see this screen now If you do not see this screen, then I recommend going over to the WordPress forums and asking for help. You post to the forums here:
http://wordpress.org/support/

7. Complete the WordPress wizard setup

Now follow the setup screen questions. I have listed them here in order to give you a reference, and what my answers would be for this tutorial. Feel free to add your own:
First Step:
Weblog tite: Example.com
Your e-mail: Admin@example.com
Second Step:
Finished! Print this screen because it contains the random password and your login to access your blog. Click on the login link after you have printed this screen in order to log into your blog.

Congrats! your WordPress blog is ready to use.Install new theme and set it.Write your first post in WordPress very easy.