Before you upload the files, you have one more thing to think about: your WordPress Blog's URL structure. Suppose that you've registered the domain, you have a few options, including these:
If you want your WordPress Blog's URL to be something other than www.yourblog.com/wordpress, be sure to rename the default WordPress directory before you upload it to your site, or create the correctly named folder on your remote host and upload the WordPress files to that folder.
Now that you've figured out your WordPress Blog's structure, you're ready to install WordPress. You've spent a good amount of time working on your wp-config file, so chances are that you won't run into any problems. Just use your FTP client to upload your WordPress Blog files to the directory you chose. You should see a file list.
To install the WordPress software, follow these steps:
1. Point your browser to the URL of your soon-to-be-functional WordPress Blog. You'll be greeted by the WordPress installation screen.
2. In the Blog Title text box, enter what you want your WordPress Blog to be called. If you can't think of anything great at the moment, don't worry. You can easily change your WordPress Blog's name later.
3. Enter your e-mail address in the Your E-Mail text box. Be sure to enter a valid address; WordPress uses it to send you the administrator account information it creates after installation.
4. Specify whether your WordPress Blog should show up in search engines. Not every WordPress Blog is meant for public consumption. If you don't want people to find your WordPress Blog easily, clear the check box titled Allow My Blog to Appear in Search Engines Like Google and Technorati. Otherwise, leave it checked.
5. Click the Install WordPress button. After a couple of seconds, you should see a Success! screen containing details about the administrator account for your new WordPress Blog. 6. Make a note of the password, which you'll need to log in to your WordPress Blog for the first time.
If, in your excitement, you clicked the Log In button before you jotted down the admin account information, worry not. WordPress also e-mailed that information to the address you provided in Step 3.
The moment you've been waiting for is finally here. Click the Log In button, and you're whisked away to the WordPress login screen, which will become familiar to you in very short order. Enter the admin account information and then click Log In.
As you see, installing WordPress isn't that tough, but sometimes bad things happen to good blogging software. A couple of common errors could happen when you're installing WordPress, and in this part, I show you how to work around them.
Most problems occur when WordPress can't access your MySQL database. If you see an error message, make the following checks and then reload the install page:
The other common problem involves PHP and is also easy to fix. When you visit the URL to install WordPress, you may see a screenful of text starting with <?php instead of the install form. This text means that you don't have PHP enabled on your server. Contact your Web hosting company or system administrator to find out how to enable PHP. After you enable PHP, reload the install page. All should be well.
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