Wordpress Manual Installation and MySQL Manual Installation Part 1

The above shows an example of the Wordpress.org website to ensure you are at the right website for the download of your software.

At the time of this tutorial creation, the current release is 2.7.1. The Download Button on the website is on the Top Right-hand side.

I prefer to to download the .zip file, just because it is a more widely accepted format and easier to “unzip”.

Ensure that you know where you are saving your file to on the hard drive so you can find it again. We will need to Extract it and then FTP it to install it. Click the “Save” Button.

Here is what the WordPress Zip File looks like the hard drive, the is the “Thumbnail” view of the Windows Explorer program.

Select the file (it is high-lighted), then what I did was “right-click” it to bring up the menu. Here I will select the “Extract All”. Many new users never use the “right-click” button on their mouse. I think you will be amazed when you press it in many different areas to see the options you have.

Anyhow let us get back to the lesson, please see below to continue with the extraction.

This the next screen you will see, after you select the “extract-all” menu button from the step before. Click the “next” button to proceed to the next step.

In Step 1 you really do not need to do anything. The WinZip Extraction Software will pick a ‘folder” for you to save the file.

Should you want to pick a different folder, you have that option here. I find this is not necessary to change, you just want to make sure you know where to go to access the files once they are extracted.

Step 2 Click “next” to go to the next step.

This screenshot is showing the progress of the “extraction” process. There is nothing to do here, this is just here for reference purposes.

Once the Extraction process is completed, leave the box checked on Step 1 and then Step 2 Click “Finish” in Step 2 to view the files you just extracted. When the “Finish” button is clicked, it will take your to where the files are on the hard drive just in case you do not know where you can find them.

The extracted file is now just like any other regular folder that you can look at in “Windows Explorer”.

Right now I wanted to make you aware of the wp-config-sample.php file. This is the only file that you will need to open and change some settings in order for your Wordpress Installation to work.

So the next piece of this tutorial will go into how to create MySQL Database which is very important part of the WordPress application. In short we have downloaded our Wordpress Application and extracted it, we are now going to move onto installing our MySQL Database.

To summarize where we are, we went to the website and downloaded the software. We then used extraction software to extract the file from the zip file. We located our wp-config.php file. Here it is called sample.

We are now going to move into creating our MySQL database. We will need this information (Creating the MySQL Database) from the creation of our database name and database user to input into our wp-config-sample.php.

Okay you may be looking at this and say why is he selecting the regular installation as opposed to the wizard. If this is your first installation we could say that the wizard would be okay, and most likely this is your first installation.

However, I want to take you through the manual way. I actually do find it easier, and also this website where I am doing this tutorial has multiple installations. I always believe in teaching you how to fish instead of just handing you the fish.

Time to teach you the manual MySQL Installation.

Click the MySQL Databases.

Please turn your speaker volume up if you cannot hear.