Installing Wordpress On Windows (2000 and XP)-Part 5 Wordpress Install

Now that we have PHP and MySQL installed and configures its time to Install Wordpress itself.

Wordpress is a collection of PHP files which you must download and copy to your host.

The first step is to download the Wordpress Zip files and extract them to a folder on you machine.

You then need to create a folder on you server (called wordpress) to copy the files to.

If you remember that the htdocs directory is the root of the web server then just create the Wordpress directory there (see below).

 Now open the wordpress folder and you will see a file called wp-config-sample.php. You need to edit this file and then rename it. So open the file in Wordpad ( Note notepad may not display the file correctly hence the use of wordpad) and change the database name and database user to match what you created in the MySQL configuration earlier.

In my case the database name was blogbase and the database user was wordpress and the password was password.

So my edited file looks like this

Once you have edited it save it as wp-config.php.

Note: make sure its not called wp-config.php.txt by mistake

Now you are ready to run the install which simply involves running a php script on the server.

So open a web browser and type:

http://locahost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

The install involves two simple steps at the end the you will be given a username and password that you can use to logon and configure your blog.

Make a note of the password!!

Here are the screenshots of the steps

Here is the summary page with the logon instructions

The install is now complete. Click to return to Installing Wordpress on windows Part 1

• Wordpress detailed install instructions