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How to install WordPress 2.0

January 19 2006
by Rachel
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If you’ve never installed WordPress before and you’d like to but maybe you’re a little scared of installing it (ssh! I won’t tell!) I’ve created a visual tutorial in Flash which explains the steps involved. If you find it useful, please let me know here.

To view the tutorial, go here and click on wordpress.swf

If you’re having trouble, you can also view it here.

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  • http://newone,comingsoon... Michel BERNAS

    Nice tutorial…

  • http://www.burgundy-report.com/ Bill Nanson

    Hi Rachel,
    A ‘real’ dummy’s question for you:
    Can I decide not to pay the ‘one-off’ set-up fee and annual extra cost of my provider adding mySQL (I have a windows acct. with MS Access running, so no-good for wordpress) and directly install mySQL 5.0 to a directory on my site, then install wordpress(?)

    Hope that makes sense.
    Thanks, Bill

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    Hi Bill,

    Unfortunately not – it needs to be installed/enabled on the server properly.

    Cheers
    Rachel

  • http://www.burgundy-report.com/ Bill Nanson

    oh well – another cash-out!
    Thanks any Rachel

  • http://www.entrpr.net Maniac

    Solid effort on the tutorial!

  • Noe

    Hi Rachel,
    As I see you have experience in wordpress installation. I was trying but I just got “Your server is running PHP version 4.0.6 but WordPress requires at least 4.1″ instead.
    Do you have any idea about solution?
    Thanks a lot for your help,
    Noe

  • http://www.cre8d-design.com/blog/ Rachel

    Hi Noe, check out this page:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Hosting_WordPress

    it explains what your web host needs to provide in order to install WordPress. You could either ask your host for them to upgrade to a newer version of PHP or switch hosts.

    Cheers
    Rachel

  • Noe

    Thanks a lot Rachel, :-)

  • Johnson

    Thanks for your work to help us with the installation. I just viewed the file and it looks great. I will use it and let you know how successful I was.
    Thanks again Rachel
    JJ

  • http://woodyevans.com Woody

    Thank you thank you thank you!

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