Installing Wordpress Using Fantastico
This is so easy you won’t believe it.
First thing you need to do is go to your Cpanel and click on Fantastico. Just look for the smiley face.
Here’s what the page will look like. There will be a menu on the left side like this:
What you need to do is click “WordPress” and you’ll be shown the screen above. Here you’ll see all the current installations and a New Installation option. When you click on this you’ll go to a setup screen like this:
Let’s go through each area real quick:
#1 : This is where you’ll choose the installation location. There is a drop down menu that shows ALL the domains you have on the server in your account. This will include your main domain name and any add-on domains you have setup. Simply choose the domain you want to install in. You’ll notice that there are 2 options for every domain. I just use the short one. Under this you’ll need to choose a directory where you want the blog located. I always use WordPress as my main page so I just leave this blank. But lets say you want to install the blog as a part of a main website then you would simply type in “blog” here (or whatever directory name you prefer) and the install will create the directory and put the files in there (the directory name you choose SHOULD NOT ALREADY EXIST).
#2: This is where you’ll choose a Username and Password for your blog. I always use “admin” as the username. Write this information down. For every domain and blog I create I get out a manila folder and write all the information in there. Cpanel access information, blog username and password, email accounts and passwords, etc.
#3: Some of the information here will be filled in already. I always change it. To simplify things just use your first name and primary email address in the first 2 boxes. In the next 2 boxes you’ll Name your blog and give it a short description. This is what will show up as the title in your blog header and the subtitle below. Don’t worry too much about this because you can change it all very easily later. For simplicity just use your domain name as the Site Name.
Now just click the Install WordPress button and Cpanel builds your blog for you. It takes less than 10 seconds to complete.
What pops up now is a screen that says your installation was successful and it gives you the URL to your blog and the Admin Login. So you know, here’s what these will look like:
Blog administrator access using your username and password:
http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
Or if you installed in a directory called “blog”:
http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin
That’s it. Now go to your new blog and log in and start checking out the menu system and everything there. We’ll go through all of it coming soon.
Have a great day!
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