Installing WordPress (blog engine)

Ever wanted to host your own blogging site? Whether you want to allow "everyone" to register and blog or whether you want to limit this to your family and friends (or colleagues), the good news is: you can!

The quick getting started guide

• Download WordPress from wordpress.org.
• Follow the 5-step install instructions that include:
  • Creating an empty mysql database (f.i. wordpress)
  • Attaching a special user to the database wordpress (f.i. user wordpress)
  • Copying all files to either the root (if blogging is the entry to your site) or the a subdirectory of the root of your homepage (f.i. blog).
  • Modify the file wp_config.php to contain the correct databasename, username and password.
  • Call the install script as follows: <yoursite>/blog/wp-admin/install.php, and follow the script.

From then on, anyone browsing <yoursite>/blog/ will see the blogging site.
If you allow registering, they will also be able to register.

Sending emails

I have not found out how to make the FSG send the email so that it arrives. Probably I need to enter an smtp-server somewhere. Anyone who knows, please insert instructions here!

--scrub56 10:21, 1 July 2006 (CEST)

I managed to get the email working on the FSG:

• Enable the Mail server service and activate smtp port 25
• Fill in the relayhost as described in Bypass the SMTP ISP mailproblem

--ernies 16:16, 8 December 2006 (CEST)