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How To Set Up A Blog And Forum – Installing WordPress
By Administrator | May 25, 2009
Welcome to part five.
First we will install WordPress, get it set up and then we will look at installing and setting up the forum. For the purposes of this blog we will use Fantastico at Axishost.
There are pros and cons to using Fantastico over installing it yourself. Sometime I may go and show you how to set it up without using Fantastico, but for now, this is what we are doing.
I purchased the domain name http://www.saltwaterfishkeeping.com and grabbed a lens at Squidoo while I was at it http://www.squidoo.com/saltwaterfishkeeping
Though I recommended Namecheap for purchasing your domain, I did that mainly for cost. It’s a little under $10.00 USD for a domain name there. I actually prefer a company called Directnic. They’re a little more expensive at $15.00 USD but there terms are some of the most flexible in the industry.
I’ve never had a problem with Directnic and they’ve always treated me well.
Now I probably could have chosen something that had better keyword searches, but this one has a few qualities that suite me. For one thing, it’s very self-explanatory. Everyone who sees it will know instantly what it’s about. It’s also versitile, it can refer to a hobby site, like we are doing, or a DIY store or anything related to the hobby. Lastly, it serves me because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to keep looking once I came up with this one. 
Here’s the site in it’s raw state:
Brand New Website
It’s actually hosted at Sweaty Shop which is my company. I host some of my sites there and some elsewhere. Sweaty Shop itself is at Axishost.
So once you’ve gotten yourself a hosting account, log into your site’s account. If you’ve gone through Axishost then you have the Fantastico control panel. It’s on the main page:
Fantastico Icon on cpanel
If you click on it, you see the following screen:
Fantastico Menu
Under the heading “Blogs” you will see a few options, click on WordPress and you will be taken to this screen:
Option To Install WordPress
This shows you important details about the install. It gives a brief description of what WordPress is and does, a link to WordPress support with a note stating that Axishost is not associated with the WordPress support (no host is, as far as I know).
It shows that this would be a new install. If you already had WordPress installed, it would tell you that as well. You can have multiple installs of Wordpress. You could have your website as one WordPress Install and your blog as a seperate install into it’s own directory. You could have multiple blogs on the same website.
The more important information is how much room it will take and how much room you have to spare. Please make sure you have enough. The starter package on Axishost is plenty big for our purposes.
Once you’ve clicked on new installation, you come to this screen:
Installation Options
Here’s where you get to choose the installation options, such as they are. You get to choose where to install it and what directory. If you want this to be the first thing people see when they come to your site, then leave the directory field blank. If you want people to come to a regular index.html file then just create a subdirectory to install this into.
Don’t worry, all you have to do is enter the name of the directory, Fantastico will do the rest. I installed it into the main directory, but if you wanted it in a directory called “blog” then you’d just enter ‘blog’ into the field, no slash marks, quotes or anything else. This would give a URL of http://www.yoursite.com/blog
Choose an administrator’s username and password. This is what you need to get into the blog itself. Then choose a nickname and e-mail address for the admin. The nickname is what visitors will see when you post anything, the e-mail will be used by the blog to notify you of things that happen on your blog, new comments, things that need moderation, etc.
Many people default to ‘admin’ or ‘administrator’ for the nickname, but you can use anything you want. It picks your website’s e-mail automatically, but you can change it. In fact I’ve changed this one so that all e-mails from WordPress goes to a special e-mail address for all of my blogs.
Once you are satisfied, or as satisfied as you think you will ever be, click on install, then you come to this screen:
Last Chance To Change Your Mind
This just sums up what’s about to happen and gives you another chance to not do it. Click on ‘finish Installation’ and it sends you to one more screen with a question:
E-mail The Install
This allows you to e-mail the installation results to an e-mail address of your choice. It is only used this once and you are asked this question everytime you install something through Fantastico.
Once you click ’send e-mail’, your WordPress is installed, the details are e-mailed to you and you can now setup WordPress. Log out of your site and go to your WordPress login page.
So if you put your blog into a subdirectory called “blog” it would be http://www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-admin If you put it into the main directory it would be http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin
Log in with the administrator’s username (not the nickname) and password and look at your brand new blog’s dashboard:
WordPress Dashboard
Next time we will setup the blog and install some basic plugins.
- Jeffery
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Topics: Blog Marketing, Blogging Tips and Tricks, Resources, blog, blogging, forums, how to | 5 Comments »
June 1st, 2009 at 10:16
I currently use WordPress for several blogs, but I wish this post had been around when I got started!
June 1st, 2009 at 13:28
Me too. Thanks for the compliment.
June 24th, 2009 at 02:43
Using Fantastico to install Wordpress is definitely one of the easiest installs
I have ever had to do. Fantastico sure makes setting up site easy.
June 25th, 2009 at 22:08
This post really help me set up my blog, thanks alot
August 24th, 2009 at 08:52
Hi, I can?t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please