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Installation guide for WordPress 3.2.1 on Gandi Simple Hosting

Here is how you can quickly install WordPress 3.2.1 on your instance.

First, go to the official WordPress website in order to download the 'latest stable release' version of the software to your computer.

Uncompress it on your computer and then upload all of the files to your instance in the desired virtualhost (website) folder where you want it to be located.

For example, if you have chosen to put your wordpress site at an address like http://www.example.com then put it in the www.example.com vhost folder. More on how to upload your files on this page.

Before you can start the installation procedure, you need to first create a database. If you don't know how to do this, see this page.

After uploading the software to your virtualhost, and creating your database, then go to the installation URL of your website using your web browser. For example, I am going to go to:

http://www.example.com/wp-admin/install.php

Of course you will modify the URL depending on your own website (www.example.com is just an example address).

Once you do this, you may see the following message:

There doesn't seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before 
we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a 
wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn't work 
for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.

Click the "create a configuration file" to get started, and then the "Let's go" button that follows.

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  • Database name: the name of the database you created in PHPmyAdmin
  • User name: the user name of the database you created in PHPmyAdmin
  • Password: the password of the database user you created in PHPmyAdmin
  • Database Host: localhost
  • Table Prefix: you can leave this

You will now see a message saying that you cannot create the wp-config.php configuration file. This is normal.

Copy and paste the contents of the file that are presented to you into a simple text editor such as 'Notepad', and save the file as "wp-config.php". Then, upload the file via sFTP to your instance, in the same virtualhost directory as the rest of your wordpress files. Once this has been done, click on the "Run the install" button.

You will now see a page where you can add information concerning you website:

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And that's it! You are now ready to start managing your wordpress website.

Note:

You will now need, however, to install the SSH SFTP Updater Support plugin on your server (upload it to /wp-content/plugins/ssh-sftp-updater-support) and activate it from the extensions menu in the administration part of your website. This will allow you to use the extension manager from your website's administration area.

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Last modified: 08 May 2012 at 00:11 by Thomas S. (Gandi)