I am planning to start my own WordPress blog that will be hosted on a shared server with my own domain name. Can you please provide me with step-by-step instructions on how to get it installed correctly?
Hello, these days most of the webhosts provide some self installing scripts, these services are provided under name "fantastico".
Just browse to Fantastico and click on Wordpress install. You will need to define where you want to install Wordpress. Leave default options if you don't know what to change. Everything else is created automatically including database. You will have to provide your administator username and password. If you do not get automatic installer then you have to download the latest wordpress from http://wordpress.com and put it in to the main or a sub directory. Then go to your control panel and creat a database by clicking my sql bdatabases, After clicking on My SQL databases, you will find a option to create user and create database. Create a user first. Choose a good user name and password which is not too easy for anyone to hack or guess. Be sure to assign all privileges to the user. After this, create a database which will be used by Wordpress. Just note down the wordpress database name and user pname with password. These will be needed. you need to edit wp-config.php file of wordpress manually to put the database and user details.
