How 2 set up wordpress 4 your website  

For this tutorial, I’m going to assume that your host is 1and1.com. You will need the Linux hosted package to have access to MySQL.

The first thing you need to do is set up a MySQL database. Log in to the 1&1 Control Panel under the "Administration" tab, click on "MySQL Administration". (At 1und1.de in Germany this tab is called "1&1 Webhosting".) Go to the button "WebDatabase" in the category "Website Applications" (At 1und1.de this button will be called "MySQL-Datenbank"). Click on “New Database”. You will be prompted for a description for your database. Just enter something like “blog” or “wordpress” and click “Set Up”. From there, 1&1 will set up a database for you. Normally, this will take just a couple of minutes. Click on “overview”, and the screen will show you the status of your database, either “setting up” or “ready”. Once it’s in “ready” status, you are ready for the next step.

Next up is downloading wordpress.zip from wordpress.org if you haven’t already. You’ll have to have a utility to unzip the file. I used WinRAR. The only file you’ll need to do anything to before you upload the whole wordpress folder is “wp-config-sample.php”. Right click on the wp-config-sample file and open with Notepad or Wordpad. Here you will fill in your database details from the 1&1 control panel in place of what’s there. With 1&1, you WILL need to change the host name from “local host” to the actual host address! Once you enter the details of your database, go to the top left corner of Notepad and click “File”, then “Save As” and rename the file “wp-config.php”.

All that’s left is uploading these files to the server. Wordpress will automatically set up the needed tables on your database. For uploading files you need to have FTP access to your webspace. I recommend Cyberduck or Filezilla, which are free programs you can download in the net. Here you will upload all the Wordpress files to whatever directory you want your blog to be in. If you want Wordpress to be your main site, you would upload the files in to the root directory. If you would like your blog to be part of an existing site, you would create a directory in the root and upload the files to that directory - for example "blog". This way you will see your blog via the directory hyperlink, e.g. www.mywebsite.com/blog. 

Now open your browser. In the address bar type in your site and add “/wp-admin/install.php” to the address (example: www.mywebsite.com/wp-admin/install.php or maybe www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php - depending on the directory you uploaded the files to. From here, Wordpress will lead you through the rest. Be sure to take special note of the password that Wordpress gives you. You will need this to log in. You can easily change it once you’re logged in, but you’ll need it for your first log-in. By the way: your login page will be www.mywebsite.com/wp-login.php :)