How to Install Wordpress Web Site

1 Introduction

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.

2 Download software

IIS7.5 or IIS8.0

MySQL

PHP 5.0+

Copy or upload the installation files by FTP and paste to the path “C:\HostingSpaces\admin\yourdomainname.com\wwwroot”

Enable write permissions, dedicated application pool, set the first Default Documents as index.php. set asp.net to 4.0(Integrated Pipeline)

If the domain name is not resolving to IP, we need to update “host” file at “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc”.

Rename the “wp-config-sample.php” to “wp-config.php” and modify it in the path of “C:\HostingSpaces\admin\testwordpress.com\wwwroot”

Enter the MySQL database information in wp-config.php file, DB name, DB user, DB password and DB host.

Please change "127.0.0.1" to the remote MySQL Server hostname or IP if you using the remote MySQL Server.

Enter the Site title, user name, password and Email address

Article ID: 241, Created: August 11, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Modified: February 17, 2021 at 9:09 PM