To install Wordpress on a remote web server, you must: 1. Download and extract the Wordpress package and upload it to your server. 2. Create a new MySQL database using your hosting control panel or PHPMyAdmin. 3. Edit the wp-config.php file with your database details. 4. Create an administrator account to access the Wordpress admin interface.

1. Installing Wordpress on your remote web server
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
• 4 main steps are:
1. Download the Wordpress install package, unzip and upload to
your web server using an FTP client
2. Create a new MySql database
3. Edit the wp-config.php file
4. Create an administrator account and start using wordpress!

2. 1. Install the Wordpress package
• http://wordpress.org/download/

3. Extract

4. Upload to web server

5. 2. Create the Database
• When you set up your web hosting, you should have been given
a url and login details to a web hosting control panel, such as
cPanel. This interface will allow you to create and manage MySql
databases (if you’re lucky, they might even have a 1-step
automated Wordpress install feature).
• http://www.cpanel.net/media/tutorials/addmysql.htm

11. PHPMyAdmin
• A common web interface for
administering databases
• If your hosting doesn’t have a
database setup ‘wizard’ you can
set up the database with this
• PHPMyAdmin is what you will
need to use if you are using the
CIF hosting
• https://phpmyadmin.ci.qut.edu.au/

12. 3. Edit the wp-config.php file
• The wordpress directory you uploaded to your web server will
contain a file called wp-config-sample.php.
• You need to edit this file and then re-upload it to your server
with the name wp-config.php (lose the -sample part).

14. 4. Create an administrator account for your wordpress
site

15. Wordpress interfaces
• Wordpress interfaces can be divided into the admin interfaces
and the public interfaces. We might also refer to these as the
backend and frontend interfaces respectively.

16. Admin/Backend Interface

17. Admin/Backend Interface
• This is where you do all your Content Management
• editing posts, moderating comments, installing plugins and
themes, managing user accounts etc.
• requires a login which you setup during installation.
• accessible at www.yourwordpresssite.com/wp-admin
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Screens#Dashboard

18. Public/Frontend Interface

19. Public/Frontend Interface
• This is what visitors to the site will see when they go to your url.
• You will want to check what the site looks like after making
changes to the appearance or the content.