How To Install A Wordpress Blog

A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, politics, sports, or mobile technology. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

In November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 57 million blogs.

There are many ways to run a blog, but the best way is to run your own software on your own site. Software that provides a method of managing your website is commonly called a CMS or Content Management System.
WordPress is one such advanced blogging tool and it provides a rich set of features. It's being said that you can install your own Wordpress blog in no more than 5 minutes so let's see the steps needed to be taken for this to happen:

1. In order to run your own site the first thing you will need is a web host that has this server specifications in order for Wordpress 2.1 to run smooth:

- PHP version 4.2 or greater
- MySQL version 4.0 or greater
- (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module
Here are some recommended web hosts.

2. Once you are ready with the thirst step you can go on, download Wordpress and unzip the package into a folder on your hard drive.

3. You will need to create a database on your web server where Wordpress can keep all your information, like comments, posts. Remember the name of the database, because you will need to configure your software in the next steps.

4. And now it's time to configure it. In the folder where you have unzipped Wordpress look for a file named wp-config-sample.php and rename it to wp-config.php.

5. Open wp-config.php with a text editor.

6. Fill in your database details, like the database name, user, password and host.

7. Upload the files on your server using a FTP client like FileZilla.

8. All you have to do now is run the install. Open your browser and type in www.yourdomainname/wp-admin/install.php.

9. Just follow the prompts and that's it! WordPress should now be installed.