The majority of hosting servers’ cPanels have a one-click install button for WordPress. Don’t worry if you don’t have a choice. It’s quite simple to set up. It consists of the following steps:

1. Download the most recent WordPress files
2. Connect to your server and upload the files
3. Create a database and set it up.
4. Install the WordPress

Let’s get this party started right away.

1. Download the most recent WordPress files

You must first download WordPress from its official download page to begin the installation procedure. Always download the most recent version of WordPress from the official website.

Open the URL https://wordpress.org/download/#download-install and download the WordPress zip file. Unzip and keep it ready for the next step.

2. Connect to your server and upload the files

You must now upload all of the files from the WordPress folder to your site hosting account. The files can be uploaded to the server in two ways. You can connect using any FTP client or use the File Manager in cPanel.

2.1 Upload files using FTP client

Download and install any FTP client on your PC to upload WordPress files to your web server. FileZilla is a good option. Download FileZilla from the official website.

To connect to your website, launch an FTP client and enter your Host name, FTP username, FTP password, and Port.

You should be able to see the folders on the right side after a successful connection. Navigate to the public_html folder.

First, decide where you want WordPress to be installed. To install it on the root directory, upload the extracted files from the wordpress folder to the public_html folder. You can also create a directory called blog and upload the files to that directory. It should look something like this picture.

2.2 Upload files using cPanel File Manager

Login to your cPanel and click on ‘File Manager’ option.

To install WordPress on your root domain, such as codesdoc.com, go to the public_html folder. To install WordPress on a subdomain such as codesdoc.com/blog, create a ‘blog’ directory under public_html folder and go to that directory.

Upload the wordpress zip file to this selected folder and extract file files. Finally it should look like this.

3. Create a database and set it up.

Let’s make a new MySQL database, user and grant all the privileges.

To begin, navigate to ‘MySQL Databases’ on cPanel. Enter the database name and click on create Database. Here first part of the database name is fixed based on the panel username. Note down the full database name once successfully created. 

On the same page there will be an option to create a user. Enter username and password. Click on the Create user button. Note down the username and password once successfully created.

At this point newuser has no permissions to do anything with the databases. So grant all the privileges to the newly created users. Under Add user to database section, select user name and database, click on the add button.

On the next page, click on All Privileges tick mark. This will grant all the privileges to the user.

You are done with the database and user setup.

4. Install the WordPress

Open the website URL on the browser, which will take you to the installation page. Enter all the details like database name, username, password. The database host and table prefix can remain unchanged.

If you don’t have write access to create a file in the install directory, you’ll get the following error. Then, in the install directory, create a wp-config.php file and paste the given text in it.

The database connection has now been established. Provide the title of the site, as well as the username, password, and email address.

WordPress installation is completed successfully. Use the URL http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin to access the WordPress admin panel.

To log in, use the username and password provided.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed WordPress. If you have any problems installing WordPress, please leave a comment below.

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If you have hosted your website on a dedicated server or cloud server and don’t have a cPanel and PHPMyAdmin access, then click here to read How to move WordPress site to a new server or a new domain using SSH?

Assumptions

Server 1: Current server where WordPress is set up. This can be your local host also.
Server 2: The server where you want to move the website.

Follow the below steps.

1. Server 1: Export database

We can use a simple plugin to export the WordPress database. Login to the WordPress control panel of server1 and install the plugin “WP Migrate DB“

WP Migrate DB helps to export the WordPress database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths, and then allows you to save it to your computer for free of cost.

Once the installation is completed, open Tools -> WP Migrate -> MIGRATE -> Export database.

Here we have to update the domain name and website file path.

To move the website from one domain name to another or from localhost to the actual domain name, you need to fill Current address and new address. If there is no change in the domain name, then just leave it blank.

File-path is the complete file path of your server. You can get this file path on the cPanel. If you don’t know the full path, you can ignore this.

Click Export Database to export the database. Download and keep it.

2. Server 1: Download the website files

Download complete website files from server1 using FTP or file manager. As there are multiple files, it is better to zip the files and download them as a single file. Login to cPanel and click on File Manager.

Go to the public_html folder. Select all the files inside and click on the compress option on the right-click menu. Give a name and save it in the public_html folder. Now download the zip file.

Alternatively, you can download the files using any FTP application.

Now we have taken the complete back of WordPress files and database.

3. Server 2: Import Database

• Login to Server 2 cPanel
• Create a new database
  • Open MySQL Databases
  • Create a new MySQL database and note down the created database name
  • Create a new MySQL user
  • Add User To Database: Select the created user and database and click add. Provide all the permissions.
• Import the database
  • Open phpMyAdmin
  • Select the database on the left-hand side
  • Click on Import
  • Chose file: Select the exported database dump downloaded from server 1
  • Click on the ‘Go’ button.
  • Once the import is done, there will be a success message.

4. Server 2: Upload the website files

Upload the downloaded WordPress files zip file to the public_html folder of Server 2. You can upload using the FTP application or using File manager.

Login to server 2 cPanel and go to File Manager. Select the public_html folder. Upload the WordPress files zip file. Once the upload is done, unzip the files into the public_html folder.

Edit the wp-config.php file and update the database and user details which you have created and noted down.

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );

/** Database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );

/** Database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );

/** Database hostname */
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

5. Update the DNS records

Now you have moved the database and all the website files from one server to another. Now is the time to point the domain to the new server.

Login to the domain control panel and go to DNS or name server settings. Point the DNS of your domain name to the new hosting server. Usually, it will take 12-24 hours to update the records.

6. Browse the website and enjoy!

You are done with all the tasks. Open the URL on the browser and check if the website opens properly. Still, your domain may point to the old server and open the website properly. To check whether the website loaded from the old server or the new server, you use the ping command on the command prompt and check the IP. You can also rename the index.php file of the old server and check if the website loads properly.

Just drop a comment if you get any problems while moving the website. I will be happy to assist you.

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