Mums Finance

It’s been ages since we covered the easy way to get your blogging software installed (ie with Fantastico) in part 1 of this guide.

Actually, it’s not that much more difficult to install it yourself. The steps to follow are:

1. go to www.wordpress.org and download the ZIP version of the software;
2. whilst that’s downloading, start up Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and type in the FTP address that your hosting service gave you along with the password (usually something like ftp.mumsfinance.com);
3. when the download is complete, double click on the downloaded file which’ll open up a window containing a single folder;
4. go into that folder, highlight all the contents, click Edit, Copy, then go to your FTP window and click Edit, Paste;
5. the upload that you started in the previous step will take longer than the download did: allow maybe 20 minutes;
6. while you’re waiting for the upload to complete, go into the control panel of your hosting service and create an empty database, noting down the database name, username, password, and host that they give you as you’ll need this later. Unfortunately, all hosting services seem to do this database creation in a different way, so you’ll just have to look around for it: it’ll usually be under the heading of “database” or “MySQL database”.
7. once the upload is complete, you need to copy the file wp-config-sample.php to one called wp-config.php
8. double click on wp-config.php and change the contents of the first couple of lines to reflect the information you noted down in step 6 then upload this file
9. your blog is almost ready to go and all you need to do is to open it in your Internet browser. This will tell you that it hasn’t been installed so just click on “install”, then note down the password that you’re given.

And that’s it!

You’ll find that your blog has one post in it “Hello world!” which you can delete.

We’ll be covering configuring the blog later but it’s quite useable at this point.

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