Setting up a worpress blog
Bogging has been a useful way for me to reflect some of my thoughts and ideas. I practiced blogging a year before and now I have shifted to this blog URL. Different people have been found to be using blog for various purposes and in different styles. Some of you might still be wondering how to set up or configure a blog for yourself. Let me reflect here some of the steps I followed during the configuration and setting up my own blog.
I would say that configuring a blog from www.wordpress.org is really simple.
The first and foremost thing is that you need to have a registered domain name, upload and access to configure your files to a server. After registering a domain name and host, it is quite helpful if you have some technical skills to getting connected to the host server and uploading the files that you download as open source blog files from www.wordpress.org/download . Let me explain this process in few steps:
1. Download wordpress open source files to your computer as stated above. Unzip the folder.
2. Upload all the files to the root folder i.e public_html folder of your host. To upload easily it is best to use ‘upload supporting software’. I use Filezilla for this purpose.
3. When the upload is completed, then it is necessary to configure the database file in the host computer. In this case you need to open the My SQL database and create a database, a user name of the database and set a password.
4. The database name, user name and password has to be updated (filled up) in the wp-config-sample.php file from among your uploaded wordpress files and save. Then rename the wp-config_sample.php file to wp-config.php. Detail instruction on setting database is found on http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Detailed_Instructions
5. That’s all. Now to install your wordpress blog, type www.
6. Your blog will be installed and you can access your blog by typing the url address in the address bar.
7. After this you can configure or manage your blog by logging inside and following the wordpress support link http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress
If you find any difficulty please forward your enquiry at global.arjun@gmail.com. Thankyou!
