How to Host Your Own Wordpress Blog

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Intro: How to Host Your Own Wordpress Blog

Installing Wordpress on your own server gives you more control over your blog. This Instructable is a step-by-step guide on how to do it, completely free and no coding skills required.

STEP 1: Get Hosted

First off, you'll need a server to upload all of your files. We need a host that supports MySQL, and FTP would make the process alot easier, but most web hosts support those 2 features anyway. If you already have a web host that supports MySQL and FTP, then go to the next step. For this Instructable, i'll be using http://www.1free.ws/, which is a free web host, but you can choose one from the list below, or find your own.

http://www.0fees.net/
http://xtreemhost.com/
http://www.free-space.net/
http://www.emenace.com/
http://www.sitegoz.com/
http://www.freewebhostx.com/
http://www.heliohost.org/home/
http://www.awardspace.com/web_hosting.html
http://www.agilityhoster.com/
http://www.byethost.com/
http://dhost.info/
http://summerhost.info/
http://www.batcave.net/
http://www.tekcities.com/
http://www.freehostpro.com/
http://www.vistahosting.cn/
http://stonerocket.net/freehost.php

STEP 2: Create a MySQL Database

Now, log into your web hosting account, and see if you can find a 'MySQL' option or 'database' option. From there you can create a database. Call it something memorable and relevant to the blog you're creating, e.g. 'blog'.

Depending on the web host, you may have to create a username and password. Again, just make the username memorable and relevant, and make the password hard to guess.

STEP 3: Download Wordpress

Go to www.wordpress.org and download Wordpress to your computer. Extract it all to a folder, then open the folder. Inside you'll find a bunch of files and folders. Find 'wp-config-sample.php' and rename it to 'wp-config.php'. Open it with Notepad.

Now, in this file you'll have to enter your details. Under 'database name' just enter your webhost username with an underscore, followed by the name of your database.

For example, if my webhost username was freew_3754403 and my database name was 'blog', I would put 'freew_3754403_blog' without the quotes of course.

Same goes for the username, but not the password. The host should stay as 'localhost' unless your webhost has a custom one.

Save and close the file.

STEP 4: Download FileZilla

To upload all the Wordpress files manually would take hours, which is where FTP comes in. First find out your webhosts FTP details. These are usually listed in the control panel of your account.

Then download an FTP client. I recommend FileZilla, which you can download here: http://filezilla-project.org/

Install and open up FileZilla.

Then enter your FTP host, username and password and press connect. This should noyl take a couple of seconds to connect.

STEP 5: Upload Wordpress Files

Once FileZilla has connected to your FTP host, navigate to 'HTDOCS' if there is one (though FileZilla). This is where you can upload the files. Simply drag and drop the wordpress folder to the 'HTDOCS' folder and wait for it to complete.

STEP 6: Configure Wordpress

Once FileZilla has uploaded all your files, on your web browser go to http://yourweb.host/wordpress/ and follow the steps.

After that you'll be taken to the dashboard. I recommend you change your wordpress admin password because the one it generated for you is too hard to remember.

That's it! You're done. Post away.

24 Comments

Gregorid 6 years ago

Arturintheme, from my personal experience there is couple of very nice Hosting services which you can use. Maybe you should search for Hostgator, DreamHost and HostJedi since they all have some nice offers and they are pretty fast and stable.

Arturintheme 7 years ago

Does anyone know if these hosting providers are fast?

LaurieV8 7 years ago

You are amazing thank you for this! I was so confused. I want to built my own site with my own server and looked everywhere to learn how and could'nt find anything until I saw this post!!! Thanks again.

LaurieV8 7 years ago

You are amazing thank you for this! I was so confused. I want to built my own site with my own server and looked everywhere to learn how and could'nt find anything until I saw this post!!! Thanks again.

LaurieV8 7 years ago

You are amazing thank you for this! I was so confused. I want to built my own site with my own server and looked everywhere to learn how and could'nt find anything until I saw this post!!! Thanks again.

MartyR9 8 years ago

I started blogging with wordpress recently and I use Wordpress hosting service from http://www.serverwagon.com. It's gonna running very well.

hsnyc 9 years ago

You can use WAMP Server to host your own WordPress site from home and save money! I have been hosting my site from my home office for a while now and it has been working great.. here is how to do it: http://hsny.co/host-your-own-site-with-wamp

RajibB4 8 years ago

please clear the url http://yourweb.host/wordpress

how i write the url give an example....please

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Jeremy_Taylor 8 years ago

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MadhavK2 8 years ago

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