How to install a blog?

[funkypilchard]

Hello I thought it best to post here due to my severe lack of programming skills.

Hopefully this will be really useful to other beginners too.

I wish to install Wordpress blog. I have some basic questions if anyone has the time to help.

1. should my blog look like this once it is installed www. mywebsite.com/blog

2. where it says "fill in your database connection details." in the blog readme, I have the following code:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'username'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>

What would my database connection details be and where would I place them in the above code? do I need to create a mysql database from my control panel first?

3. It then tells me to "upload everything" should I create a new directory on my webspace like /new (blog) folder/ and just drag all of the contents out of the unzipped wordpress folder into the folder on my webspace called /blog/ via ftp.

Thanks in advance. (sorry for being so basic)

[dhscott]

If you have a host which uses cPanel, you can use Fantastico to install Wordpress quickly and easily.

If you don't have cPanel with Fantastico, follow this guide: Installing Wordpress

[Nonactiveuser8999]

If you can't install using the Codex Tutorial I will be happy to install it for you

[funkypilchard]

hey thanks guys.. I do have cpanel, I will have a look at fantistico and if I get stuck I may come back to you

[funkypilchard]

ok I looked at Fantastico and although very comprehensive it is also quite costly so I will try myself first using codex, one question I am using ZipDeploy to upload the files to my web space.

My computer runs windows xp but the cpanel on the web space is linux, should I download the windows version or linux version? thanks

[Bagi Zoltán]

All you need in order to succesfully install a word press is 4 data:
database name, database username, db password and the database host. In general the hosting providers send this information when they set up the user's account. If you don't have the you should request again. I don't really know cp but it's possible that you will find those info there as well. If you have them you should open the wp-config-sample.php file for editing. Set the data

('DB_NAME', 'yourdatabasenamecomeshere'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'yourdatabaseusernamecomeshere'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourdatabasepasswordcomeshere'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'yourdatabasehostcomeshere') /it's usually localhost.

As the next step you should save this file as wp-config.php. After finishing with it copy the content of the packaging directory via ftp to your server. Copy only the contant without the directory.

The last step will be installing by running the yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php file in your browser. Follow the steps and you will be happy

[funkypilchard]

thanks both, this place is extremely useful

[funkypilchard]

All you need in order to succesfully install a word press is 4 data:
database name, database username, db password and the database host. In general the hosting providers send this information when they set up the user's account. If you don't have the you should request again. I don't really know cp but it's possible that you will find those info there as well. If you have them you should open the wp-config-sample.php file for editing. Set the data

('DB_NAME', 'yourdatabasenamecomeshere'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'yourdatabaseusernamecomeshere'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourdatabasepasswordcomeshere'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'yourdatabasehostcomeshere') /it's usually localhost.

As the next step you should save this file as wp-config.php. After finishing with it copy the content of the packaging directory via ftp to your server. Copy only the contant without the directory.

The last step will be installing by running the yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php file in your browser. Follow the steps and you will be happy

ok.. so, I already have one database with my website which is to do with it being e-commerce, should I use these existing details or.. should I create a new database specifically for the blog and if I do should I create an Access Host: (localhost) along with password etc?

I'm not sure what an access host is actually?

thanks

[temi]

Nick,
Whenever you are installing and application that needs database, you MUST create a new database for that application, so you need to create a new database for Word Press and should you install another application that needs database you need to create yet another database for that application.

Thanks

[funkypilchard]

brilliant thanks.