Step By Step Guide Of Setting Up Your Wordpress Blog On LunarPages Part 2
Sire on Jun-11-2008 under TutorialOK, now just before we upload the Wordpress files we need to start up a database for your new blog.
1: Log into your Lunar Pages Customer Account Pages
2: Click on the ‘Control Panel’ Icon
3. Click on the ‘Go to cPanel ‘ tab
4. Click on the MySQL® Databases icon
5.Find the are where it asks for New Database: and enter your database name, I suggest the name of your blog, and then click Create Database. Then click ‘Go back’
6. Now you need to create a Username for your database so place your username in the box and next add your password then click create user. Then click back.
7. Now to add that user to your database. You do this in the Add Users To Your Databases: section by pointing the user you have just created to your new database. Remember to click ‘All’ for privileges and then click the ‘Add user to database’ tab. Ok, That should be it.
If you haven’t already done so, unzip your Wordpress files and then open the wp-config-sample.php and fill in the following details.
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere’); // The name of the database you just created
define(’DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere’); // The username you just created
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’); // …and password
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // You won’t need to change this
Once you have done this save the file as wp-config.php and then you are ready to upload the files.
If your blog has the same name as your domain simply upload everything inside the wordpress directory (not the directory itself) to your domain. These files should be placed in the public_html directory. This may take awhile depending on your transfer speed. Once completed start your browser and point it to yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php and the self install will start. Everything being OK, you will have your new blog up in minutes.
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Stumble it!
ok, I think I have actually done some of these steps! ooops, I did them out of order? ok??
I will try to get these steps finished up today. thank you!!
well, I am hung up….I thought I had downloaded and unzipped wordpress. couldn’t find it, so I down loaded it again. I have “extracted” it several times, but can’t figure out if it’s unzipped, where to find it, and how to find the wp-config-sample.php. I found it w/o the php at the end. but when I clicked it, it kept opening American Greetings software….ugh. I don’t know what I am doing!!
If you are using XP, right click on the zip file and then select ‘extract all’. Don’t let it bother you, once you get the hang of it all you won’t even remember struggling with it.
ok, yes this is what I did….but it is opening the American Greetings software….
probably because you don’t have any software that recognizes the php extension. Try using microsoft wordpad.
ok, sire, I am up way too late, but I think I may have just made some progress!!!
Well don’t keep me in suspense Silken, what sort of progress?
ha! ok, I got the window to pop up and I changed the config sample (at least I think I did…) but then don’t know where to go from there….upload where/how? and the passive mode did not work….so I went to bed and thought I would try again today…..sorry sire, I am sure feeling incompetent!
Silken, if you like, email the details for filezilla and I will check if it works on my end.
ok, I may have found where I am supposed to upload, is it “file manager”? but exactly what am I uploading? wordpress has a ton of things in it and there are not enough slots for each of these things….
Silken you upload everything in the Wordpress folder.
e.g. Using Filezilla you would open the Wordpress folder on your computer, right click on wp-admin and select upload, and filezilla will upload that folder. Once that is done do the same for the other two folders. Once they are completed select each of the remaining files and upload those as well. Holding the ctrl button lets you select multiple files as well.