When I begin to write this Blog I use the tools that 1&1 offered to me. But I soon noticed that the service offered little flexibility and I needed more control over the content and settings of my blog. So I immediately started researching how to install a new version of WordPress.
To install a new version of WordPress you must do the next steps:
- First we must create a MySQL Database. For this we enter to domain management tool with the user and password management and headed to the “MySQL Management” in the Administration tab. From here we click on “New Database“.
- Then we downloaded the latest version of WordPress from the official site. This is a zip file of about 2MB in size. Unzip the contents of the zip on your computer and open the file “wp-config-sample“. Edit it and in it we replace the data on the database you just created. We must replace the values of the first four lines that begin with define: 1.Database name
2. Username
3.Password
4.server name. Here you have to replace localhost with the name of accommodation. This figure appears in the Control Panel.
5.For end we modify the parameter “WP-LANG” with value “en_US” to define the English language. - With the domain management panel, we create an FTP account by clicking on “FTP Access”. Using an FTP client program, we connect to our domain space using the user name and password you created. Then, using the FTP client, we got the whole WordPress folder into space. In my case I got into a folder called blog, for it was available in www.mydomainname.com/blog.
- Once uploaded and closed the FTP client and open the URL in a browser www.mydomainname.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php. WordPress start, we will ask you for the configuration data and voila, we have created and shaped our blog. We should point out, though, that gives us the password for the first time to connect. Then we can change it.
