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How to upload wordpress in to my server and how to run the install.php file?
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My server is free hosting server and I have uploaded wordpress in to my server via ftp. But now I cannot run the install.php file. I deleted the index.html file which was already on the server and I run the install.php file but it appears 403 forbidden. So I think I couldnt upload wordpress in to the root directory, please help me to resolve this.
Best Response:
Answer by Windowphobe
Unless the server allows you access to PHP and a MySQL database, you can’t run WordPress. Period.
And you need to set up that database before you can run the install.
What’s the Difference Between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, Anyways?
If you’re looking at setting up a website lately, you might be looking at WordPress as a possible solution for getting your site up quickly and making it as easy to manage as possible. No learning html or anything—Wordpress certainly offers a great solution that requires little technical knowledge. But during their research, many people get confused as they notice that Internet Marketers often talk about uploading WordPress to your own hosting account, which you pay for, but WordPress.com already offers free websites for anyone who wants them.
Let me clear it up for you.
There’s a big difference between WordPress.com and the software you download from WordPress.org. Well, it’s basically the same software, it’s made by the same people and is all opensource, but what differs is the way you can use it.
WordPress.com is a relatively easy option if you just want to toss a quick hobby site online. The control you get over customization and all that is not as great, but it does get you online. And many people do use these WordPress.com sites to send more traffic to their self-hosted sites. Basically, when you go with this option, you are just opening up a WordPress account and setting up a website on their server.
There are some major disadvantages to using the WordPress.com account. The first is they will not allow you to monetize your site or promote your business, and if they feel you are working around those rules, they’ve got the authority to just take your site off the web in an instant and leave you hanging high and dry. Not too cool if you were pulling any kind of income stream off of that web property.
The other major disadvantage is that a WordPress.com site has “.wordpress.com” at the end of the domain. So, instead of your site being WeSellThingamabobbers.com, it would be WeSellThingamabobbers.wordpress.com. It looks uglier, it looks unprofessional, and it really just doesn’t fly for a serious business.
So what’s the deal with WordPress.org? Well, WordPress also makes the software available to people who have their own hosting accounts. That means you can still get all the benefits of their easy-to-use platform without any of those nasty disadvantages. And it’s still free.
The only thing you’re paying for if you go this route is your domain name and your hosting. Domains typically go from – and hosting runs about – a month, depending on your needs. Don’t worry—it’s easy to keep it down on the lower end of the spectrum if all you want to do is run a single site. But the fact that you get a free opensource software program to run your site with means you are still getting a site dirt cheap.
So I hope that clears it up a bit. I remember when I was just a newbie and always stumbling across people writing about WordPress.com and WordPress.org without making it clear what the difference was, I found myself scratching my head a bit.
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I had a website with wordpress and hosting with hostgator… I cancelled the hosting …?
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I did not know that I would lose my website… what about the domain name that I purchased can I still use it? Are there any free websites that I can still use the same domain name? And free hosting as well? Are there any sites that are free to setup and allow to post banners and adsense? Thank you to any replies!
Best Response:
Answer by James
The domain should still be yours. When you cancelled your account with host gator you should have ask about your domain, but it shouldn’t be too late as long as your domain didn’t expire. Ask them to give you the DNS settings for your domain. You can take that and go to another host while keeping your domain. You won’t find a free web host that will allow you to use your domain unless you find an individual person who is willing to do this. Let me tell you a little about my experience with web hosting companies over the years. At times you will come across deals that are almost too good to be true – cheap web hosting with amazing features! There are hosts that while offering cheap prices do back that up with excellent performance and service, but there are things to be noted:
There are a lot of potential questions you must ask yourself, whilst bearing in mind other peoples reviews, their reputation, and ultimately – the price. I personally use http://www.top15hosting.com to read web hosting reviews and see what web host is getting the best reputation as well as the bad, which helps me decide who to stay away from.
Your experience might be different but I have many complaints from PowWeb and Dot5Hosting. Those companies just took my money and provided me with bad customer support and my websites would always be down. Today I use Just Host for my web hosting and I’m very satisfied. As long as you do a little research before buying your web hosting you will be fine.
How to Install WordPress Into Your Site ?
Nowadays people look out for methods that make their life simple, and thats normal because in this very busy world one would not like to waste time on simple things. Same thing with the website too.
There are lot of tools available in the market like website builders, readymade templates, flash scripts etc which will really make your job easy in building your website. WordPress is nothing different from these, it is also an publishing tool which will make you feel comfortable in maintaining your website.
WordPress is similar to blogger from google, but here we will have a option of installing wordpress in our own hosted domains rather than only under wordpress. It is a very usefull tool if your website is about articles, poems, short stories etc where you will have to put lot of text into your website.
First you need to install wordpress into your site, and the things you need for that is the wordpress package which is available at www.wordpress.org and a FTP client like Filezilla which is available at www.filezilla-project.org, both are available free of cost. And importantly you should have a hosting site which will provide you with minimum of one Database. If you have all this then you can install wordpress into your site.
In your hosting site you need to create a FTP account and also a Database. For both you need to give username and password, and you will also have to create a user for your database. In the wordpress package which is about 2.3MB, you will have to find a file by name wp-sample-config.php, open that file in any of the text editing tools like notepad or wordpad, in that there are several lines of PHP scripts, in which you will need to edit the following four lines,
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘your-database-name’)
define(’DB_USER’, ‘username’)
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’)
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘database-server-name’)
In the above lines you will have to replace the your-database-name with the database name you created in your hosting site, username with the user you created for your database, password with the password you gave for your database and database-server-name with the name of the database server of your host. If you do not know the database server name, find it out from MySQL manager in your hosting site.
Once you have done this much rename the file as wp-config.php and save it. No its time to upload all the files inside the wordpress package into your host’s root directory, which will be usually /public-html/ . Use a FTP client like Filezilla for uploading all your files into your hosts directory. Please note that you will have to upload the files inside the wordpress package and not the whole package itself.
After uploading all the files into your host you will need to install wordpress into your site’s host and that is done by following instructions, type,
your-site-name/wp-admin/install.php
in your browsers address bar, if you have uploaded your files into right directory and entered the database information properly then you should be able to see a wordpress page saying, ‘wordpress installed’ and asking for your other details like name, e-mail, website name etc.
Once you have done with the above , you will get a mail which will contain the password using which you can log into wordpress dashboard. The username is always ‘admin’. Now enter the username and password and start posting your contents.
WordPress dashboard can be opened by using the following instruction,
your-site-name/wp-admin
By default wordpress will have two themes in it, you can install other themes into your wordpress by downloading the themes from other sites or from the wordpress website itself. The download package will be archived, you will need to extract it and upload the entire folder into wp-content/Themes folder into your hosts directory. If you want to install different plugins like visitor stats etc, then you will have to download the plugins and upload it into wp-content/Plugins folder of your host directory. Note that here also you will have to entire folder.
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