Wordpress vs Blogger (ROUND 2)

Ok why am I challenging all users of Blogger.com by continually posting about Wordpress. First of all Blogger TOS don't disallow me from mentioning competitors. Secondly its a free capitalist web and anyone is free to try any product they wish.It actually may turn out that Blogger is better than Wordpress.

To be able to use Wordpress the blogger must have a basic understanding of web hosting and should be able to do things like creating a Mysql database and editing PHP code to place adsense code, redit, fark, and de.licio.us widgets on the blog

As mentioned before in the previous post minimum requirements are :

* PHP version 4.2

* MySQL version 4.0

Installing Wordpress on a blog hosted at Godaddy (Linux Deluxe Account)

The host for my new Wordpress blog is Godaddy.com. Godaddy is considered to be the grumpy granddad of all web hosts and is sometimes difficult to work with.

I was surprised that the job turned out to be a true ‘5 Minute Install’, simple from start to end.

Installing Wordpress on a Godaddy account is truly a trivial task.

Step 1.

Download Wordpress from http://wordpress.org/download/. (There is unofficial news however floating Wordpress 2.1.2 has been breached and is not secure)

Unzip the folder to your local drive

Step 2

Login to your Godaddy account and go to Control panel > MySQL.

Click on Create New Database. Select your prefered version and enter the other requested details.

The next screen shows you that the database has been created. Take note of the “Host name ”. It is required in the next step.

Step 3

Open the folder where you extracted wordpress and rename the file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. Open this file using either Dreamweaver or Notepad

Edit the following lines by entering the details that you used to create the database on the Godaddy control Panel

define('DB_NAME', ''); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', ''); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', ''); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

Your wp-config.php should now appear like this.

Step 4

Using your favourite ftp client upload the whole Wordpress folder onto your web server.

Step 5

Type http://www.yourDOMAIN.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php to begin installing Wordpress.

WordPress will then create the required database tables in the database and issue you with a randomly generated admin password.

You can now log on at http://www.yourDOMAIN.com/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-login.php

SIMPLE AS THAT!!

Common errors

"Error establishing a database connection....."

99 % of the time this error occurs when you have edited wp-config.php wrongly. Check your DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST variables.

Those who say Godaddy sucks can eat their hats. HAPPY BLOGGING.