WordPress Tutorial #1
Installing WordPress via Fantastico
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~ Video transcript ~
This tutorial will show you how to install WordPress via Fantastico. To prevent conflicts between similar file names, Fantastico will only allow you to install one package per directory. (i.e. You cannot have a WordPress installation and an OS Commerce store on the same site without specifying separate directories or sub-domains for them.
Click the WordPress link in Fantastico.
WordPress is a simple open-source blogging solution w a variety of custom themes & plugins available for it that can be downloaded and installed after the initial installation is completed. There is also extensive documentation for it available on their website at: www.wordpress.org.
There is also a support forum available at: www.wordpress.org/support
Click the New Installation link. Select the domain or sub-domain where you want to install WordPress. All sub-domains, parked domains and addon domains currently installed on the account will be listed in the menu along with the primary domain. To install WordPress on a sub-domain, parked domain or addon domain you will need to add the domain in cPanel prior to attempting the installation of WordPress.
In this case, we have created a sub-domain called "blog.demo-domain.net" previously for our WordPress installation.
Enter the Install in directory (if needed). Leave this blank if the URL to get to the WordPress page will not include a directory (i.e. http://domain.tld or http://subdomain.domain.tld). However if you want the URL to include a directory, (i.e. http://domain.tld/blog), then you would enter the relative path to the directory in this field (i.e. "blog"). It is also not necessary to create the directory prior to installing WordPress. The installer will create it automatically.
Enter a username for the Admin access panel. [Admin]
Enter a password. [abc123!!!]
Enter an Admin nickname. [Blog God]
Enter your email address. By default Fantastico autopopulates this field with an email address based off of the cPanel username. However, the email address associated with your cPanel user is NOT on your domain but rather on the hostname of the server itself so you will want to change this value to a valid email address. [demo@demo-domain.net]
Enter the site name. [blog.demo-domain.net]
Enter the description. [Demo Domain Blog]
Click the Install WordPress buttton.
Click the Finish installation button.
NOTE: Fantastico gives us the option to send the details of the installation (including the login information) to an email address. This is useful when installing WordPress for a client who will manage it or storing it for later reference.
Enter an email address. [demo@demo-domain.net]
Click the send email button.
Click the Back to WordPress overview link.
Now let's go to the site. Click the visit site link.
NOTE: WordPress will automatically redirect all requests to a URL based off the fully qualified domain name entered during installation. this will make previewing using cPanel's preview URL (http:/IP/~user/directory/) impossible.
TIP: If you need to preview the site prior to changing your DNS and waiting for it to propagate, you can alter the values for "siteurl" and "home" in the wp_options table in the WordPress database to use to preview URL instead of the one using the domain in phpMyAdmin. You will want to change the values back to the original values once the site is ready to "go live."
Now let's login to the Admin Panel.
Enter the new address. [http://blog.demo-domain.net/wp-admin
Enter the Username. [admin]
Enter the Password. [abc123!!!]
Click the Log In button.
Congratulations! You now know how to install WordPress via Fantastico.
Stay tuned for WordPress Tutorial #2 - Installing WordPress Manually. Don't forget to register your E-mail to receive all the new Blog updates!
