This guide will help you with the installation of WordPress blog program in a Unix Network Solution Hosting Server. I do not know how well it works when it is hosted in a windows server but you can try and leave a comment about your experience.
WordPress needs to be downloaded and installed on the hosting server of Network Solutions. For the installation, it is necessary to have a MySQL database and FTP Account created in your host. Steps for this will be explained along this guide.
To start you need to login into http://www.networksolutions.com/ using your user and password.
Create MySQL Database . Go to the “Services Assigned to this Account” section and click on the service tagged as “Hosting Package” to open the hosting detail window.
- Click on “Hosting Control Panel” button
- Click on “Database Manager” icon
- Click on “Add” button and enter
Username/Password. This is the username and password used to login into the database
Database Name. This is the name that you want to assign to your database.
Disk Space. Assign 100MB to start. You can assign more space after its creation as needed.
- Click on “OK” button to create the database.
Take note of the IP address assigned to your new database. This value will be needed to configure wordpress for installation.
Username, Password and Database Name will be used later to configure WordPress in order to install its tables into this database.
Testing MySQL DataBase. You will need to wait at least 15 minutes to have the database created and working in the hosting. From the Database Manager window
- Click on the database name.
- Click on “Manage” button to open the window “phpMyAdmin” where you need to enter the username and password to login into the MySQL database that you created before.
If you get the error message “Cannot log in to the MySQL server” it may be for the following reason:
- Network solutions is taking longer on updating the database.
- You may be in a computer behind a fireworld that does not allow the conection.
- You are typing the wrong username and/or password.
Loging in is the indicator to determine the database is ready to hold the tables created for wordpress during the installation.
Create FTP Account. From the Database Manager window:
- Click on “File Tools” link, located at the left column.
- Click on FTP Accounts icon.
- Click on “Add” button and enter.
UserName/Password. This is the username and password used to login into the server to transfer the WordPress files.
Directory. Leave the default value as “/”, which is the root of your host directory.
- Click on “OK” button to create the FTP account.Your full username will be a concatenation of the name that you entered in “username” and “%host number”.
Take note of the server address located at the right column in the “settings” area. This server address will be used to configure your FTP client to transfer wordpress files to the server.
Download Worpress. Download to your local computer the zipped package of WordPress from http://wordpress.org/download
Unzip the saved file into a temporary folder. It will create the folder named "wordpress".
Configure Worpress. Go to "wordpress" directory and rename file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php
Open wp-config.php with your favorite text editor and update the only the following lines if you are planning to write on English:
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'database name');
define('DB_USER', 'user name');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DB_HOST', 'Server IP');
Use the values entered when you created MySQL database. Do not remove the quotes and, although you see a comment saying there is a 99% chance of not changing the DB_HOST variable, be aware this is the 1% chance that you need to do it, so update the DB_HOST with the IP Server assigned to the database.
Download FTP Client Program. If you already have an FTP client program, you can skip this step and configure it out with the information obtained when you created the FTP account.
Although there are many choices out there for FTP client, I am mentioning FileZilla, which is the one that I used.
You can download FileZila from http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Click “Download” link located at the left column of the page.
On the download page go to the “File Releases” area and click on the file named as FileZilla_version_setup.exe (be carefully on not selecting the one that says “server”).
Choose the location of your preference and download the file in a temporary directory of your local computer. Execute the file to install FileZilla.
Once FileZilla is installed, run the program and configure the Network Solution server by going to File Menu and selecting “Site Manager” option. Click on “New Site” button located at the bottom of the navigator and enter the following information:
- Host: This is the server address assigned to the FTP Account created in Network Solutions.
- Port: Use the default.
- ServerType: FTP.
- Logon Type: Select Normal.
- User: This is the username entered for the FTP account created in Network Solutions.
- Password: This is the password assigned for the username above in the FTP account
Click on “Connect” button located at the bottom of the dialog box. When connected you will see the directories of your Network Solutions host at the right site.
Transferring Wordpress to the server. Transfer “wordpress” folder from your local computer to the directory “/htdocs” on Network Solutions server.
You may want to change the name of the “wordpress” directory created in the server since it is going to be the subdirectory used for your blog under your domain (example www.mydomain.com/wordpress or www.mydomain.com/blog)
Installing WordPress. I am assuming you changed the “wordpress” directory name to “blog” but if you have not change it, you can keep using “wordpress” wherever you see “blog” in this section.
Type www.mydomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php in your web browser to install word press. You sill see a page saying First Step and then another saying second step where you need to enter the Title of your Blog and your email address.
Once WordPress is installed, people will see your blog by using www.mydomain.com/blog
