How to Setup WordPress Blog On Your Own Domain?

In our earlier article we gave a tutorial on How To Setup Blog on Free Platforms? . So continuing that series, here in this article we will be teaching you to set up your own blog, i.e creating blog on your own domain. Setting up your own blog certainly gives you a lot of freedom. Well we will be discussing it in detail in our upcoming articles. Here in this article we will be constraining just on How To setup a WordPress Blog? There are various other platforms like Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, Geeklog etc to set up your own blog. Our favorite is obviously WordPress , so it will be discussed first, the rest will also be discussed, but in our later posts.

So here is our article on “ How to Setup WordPress Blog On Your Own Domain?”Before setting up your blog on WordPress there are some prerequisites, they are listed below :-

Your own domain (Obviously !!)
FTP access to your server
PHP and MySql enabled on your server
C-Panel access of your server

Now after you have fulfilled the above prerequisites, you are ready to download WordPress . There are two methods of downloading wordpress :-

One click Fantastico download
Manual Download

One Click Fantastico WordPress Download

Login to your cPanel then locate and click Fantastico De Luxe icon

Then find and click WordPress link under blogs category

Then choose New Installation

Decide upon the location of your blog – if you would like to have it as your site front page, leave the directory box blank, otherwise fill in the appropriate folder name. Next, fill in the administrator details and the e-mail account configuration then click the Install WordPress button.

A new confirmation page will be loaded for the installation. Click the Finish Installation button if no errors are reported. Else you will have to go back and rectify the specified issues

Manual Installtion

How ever if you don’t have Fantastico Deluxe in your cPanel,you can download wordpress manually.

Create a My Sql database on your sever with cPanel.
Download WordPress on your computer [ link ]
Unzip the folder.
Locate wp-config-sample.php and open it in any text editor like notepad.
Locate DB_name then replace define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database_name_here’); with define(‘DB_USER’, ‘your_database_name’);
Similarly replace Db_user and DB_password . The following image can clarify this procedure :-
Leave DB_Host as it is, but if it is giving some errors then replace with ip address of your server.
Now save this file as wp-config.php
Now upload all the files on your server through FTP.
In your browser type www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
Follow the instructions.
And you are ready.