INSTALLING WORDPRESS MANUALLY:

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE

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NOTE
Before you try anything in this book, you are strongly advised to create full backups of your website or blog! Bad things happen to lazy people.

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Installing WordPress Manually: The Ultimate Guide

Whilst it is true that you can install WordPress quickly and easily using an automatic installer script such as Fantastico, doing so will actually make your site far more vulnerable to getting hacked. This is because such script:

may not install the latest WordPress version which is already a problem because you really should only be using the latest stable release of WordPress to minimize security problems dumps remnants of installation on your server which can be exploited by those with nefarious intention doesnt install WordPress securely: (i) it names your database using an easy to guess naming pattern i.e. wrdp1, wrdp2, wrdp3 etc which will put your site in a serious jeopardy, (ii) it adds wp_ prefix to your database tables which is also a common knowledge, making it a lot easier for people to hack your site

You dont want your site to carry such security risks, do you? Especially if your site is a business website. You cannot afford to get lazy and use this installation method, you have too much at stake here.' So, never ever use automatic installation method to install WordPress or any other scripts for that matter. Always, always, always install your scripts manually. It requires a little bit of works and takes longer time to do but its one of those things every good webmaster must do. In this article Im gonna show you how to install WordPress manually. Perhaps contrary to what you might believe, its actually not that difficult. You might feel a bit scared and intimidated in the beginning but after doing it a couple of times itll be like a walk in the park for you! So, are you ready? Great! Lets rock n roll

Creating Database and User for WordPress

Since WordPress needs a container to store data, the first thing you have to do before you go on installing WordPress is to create a database and user for WordPress. Lets create a database first. Heres how to do it using CPanel. 1. Login to your CPanel account

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2. Scroll down a bit until you find MySQL Databases under the Databases section. Once you find it, click it to bring up the MySQL Database screen

3. Name your database. You can name it whatever you like but dont use one thats easy to predict. Some web host will add your account username as the prefix to your database

4. Once you name your database, click the Create Database button to create the database 5. Next, click the Go Back button in the screen that follows to return to the MySQL Databases screen. Dont forget to copy the database name you see on the screen. This is important: dont include the dot at the end of the database name! Thats not part of the database name.

OK, now that we have created the database, next lets create a database user. 1. From your MySQL Databases screen scroll down until you find the Add New User section like shown below

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2. You can name the user whatever you want but make sure you choose one thats also hard to guess. 3. Next create a password for the user. You can use the Password Generator tool to help you come up with some strong passwords.

4. Click the Advanced Options link to show the Password Generator options menu. Change password length to 18 (maximum value). Leave the other settings as is. 5. Copy the generated password in a text editor. 6. Tick the I have copied this password in a safe place checkbox 7. Click the Use Password button to insert the generated password 8. Next, click the Create User button to finalize this step

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9. Copy the database user name and password you see on the screen. Again, please be careful not to include the dot at the end of the password. Thats not part of the password!

Now that we have created a database and a user, next thing we need to do is to connect the user to the database we just created. If theres no connection between the two then the user will have no access to the database. 1. To connect the database and the user simply select the database and user you created earlier form the User and Database dropdown menu and then click the Add button.

2. Next tick the All Privileges checkbox and then click the Make Changes button

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Download WordPress
If you havent done so, next download the latest stable release of WordPress from wordpress.org.

You can save the file wherever you want but its better to save it in a location thats easy for you to find. Perhaps save it in a special folder thats named after your website e.g. mywebsite.com.

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Modify wp-config-sample.php
Next, unzip the WordPress file you downloaded earlier. Look for wp-config-sample.php file inside the unzipped wordpress folder. Name that file to wp-config.php (remove the -sample).

Open the wp-config.php file using a simple text editor such as Notepad, Notepad++, TextMate or TextWrangler. Dont open the file using word processor software such as Microsoft Word as its going to add some additional formatting not suitable for a web-based application.

Copy and paste the database name, user and password you created in the previous step into the database_name_here, username_here and password_here respectively as shown in the image below.

As of the MySQL hostname, in most cases you just leave it as is (localhost). This is the most common value for most web hosts. But this is not always you case. So, you might want to check out some possible possible DB_HOST values from WordPress or ask your web host to be sure.

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For additional security, lets add keys and salts. To do this first generate a random salt by visiting WordPress Secret Key Generator page. Highlight and copy everything you see on the screen to your clipboard.

Next highlight the keys you see in wp-config.php file as shown in the image below.

Click Paste to paste the keys you copied earlier from the salt generator page.

Next, change the table prefix from wp_ to something else like amore_ for instance. Again, the idea here is to make it harder to guess.

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Once youre done, highlight all the files and zip them.

Upload WordPress to Your Server

Now, lets upload the zipped wordpress file to our server. 1. Login to your CPanel account 2. Click File Manager

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3. Select the domain in which you want to upload/install WordPress. Unless you have sub domains under your main domain, there should be one domain you see in the drop down menu

4. Click the Upload menu to upload the file 5. Browse to the location in which you saved your WordPress file. Leave the other settings as is. Wait until the upload process is completed, be patient.

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6. Once the file is uploaded, extract it by clicking the Extract menu as shown in the image below

7. Once you extract the file, visit http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php (replace yourdomain.com with your real domain name) 8. Complete the form accordingly. For the username, never use admin for security reasons. Choose name thats hard to guess. Do the same thing with password. Dont use one that can be easily guessed by people. Use very strong passwords. If your site is new, you might want to uncheck the Allow search engines to index this site checkbox.

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9. If youre ready, click the Install WordPress button 10. Once WordPress is installed, dont forget to delete the install.php file found in the wp-admin folder. This is to prevent people from messing around with your site Congratulation! Now you know how to install WordPress manually. Its not too bad, is it? I told you There are far too many people out there not wanting to invest their time to learn this very important WordPress skill. But youre not one of them. Youre among the elite few. You should be proud of yourself, I am. Trust me; youd thank yourself for taking the time to learn how to do this.

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