How to Install Wordpress On 1and1 Servers

1. Wordpress uses a MySQL database to store content, member data, and other relevant information for your blog. The first thing that we need to do is log into our 1and1 control panel and create a new MySQL database. So log into your 1and1 account (customer login) and go to the control panel.
2. Click on the package that you want to install the blog in and then go to the 'Administration' tab within the control panel.

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Click on the 'MySQL Administration' logo within the Web Space Access section of the 'Administration' tab. See picture for reference.
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Once inside the MySQL Admin tool, click on 'New Database' to setup a new Database to be used for Wordpress. See picture for reference.
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The next screen will ask you to enter a name for your database. Enter in Wordpress_Blog. Also make sure that you select the newest version of MySQL. Then click 'Set Up'. See picture for reference.
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Now 11 will automatically set up a new database for you that will be assigned to your wordpress blog. This should take anywhere from 5-30 minutes to complete. To check on the status of the database being created, simply click on 'overview', and the screen will show you the status of your database as either 'setting up' or 'ready'. Once it's in 'ready' status, we can move on to the next step to start the Wordpress install. See picture for reference.
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Now go to wordpress.org/download and download the most recent wordpress install package to your desktop. I have included a link to the wordpress download in the resources section of this article. See picture for reference.
8. Now we want to extract the files to our desktop so that we can install them into our site's root folder later. To do this, you can use winzip or another extraction program, but I recommend and prefer to use 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a free tool that works really well on all kinds of compressed files. You can find the download link in the resources section. So go ahead and extract the files in the Wordpress zip to your desktop.
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Now open up the wordpress folder that had been uncompressed. It should look exactly like the image I have attached. Check to make sure that it looks like this.
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You will need to make a change to a file called 'wp-config-sample.php'. before you upload all of these files to your websites root directory. To do this look for the file called 'wp-config-sample.php' and open it up with Notepad or Wordpad (right click on it and select open with). See picture for reference.
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Now we want to add our database information from our 1and1 control panel to the file information that is within this 'wp-config-sample.php' file. To do this. Go back into your control panel and log back into your MySQL admin page. You will notice that 1and1 has listed the following information next to the new database that you created: hostname, database name, username, password. You will need to fill all of this information into the 'wp-config-sample.php' file in the red boxes that I have marked in the attached picture. See the picture I attached for reference. With 11, you WILL need to change the host name from 'local host' to the actual host.
12. When you are finished, save this file as 'wp-config.php' right in with the original Wordpress files.
13. Now all you have to do is upload all of these files to the root of your website directory, or you can upload them into a directory of your choice on your website that you want to store your blog - ie 'blog' directory. Wordpress will automatically set up the needed tables on your database. I use Dreamweaver and Filezilla to upload files. Filezilla is a free program you can download from the link I included in the resources section. 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.
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After you have moved all of the files to your web server, you now have to do one last step! FINALLY! Open a web browser and then type in your website address and the directory that you installed the wordpress files at and add '/wp-admin/install.php' to the address (example: www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/install.php or www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php). Wordpress will lead you through a final install tutorial that you will need to do in order to complete the installation and use Wordpress as a blog or your main site.
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Once you have entered in the required information, you should get a final screen that gives you your username and password to login. Take special note of the password that Wordpress gives you as you need this to log in for the first time. See image for reference.
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Now log-in to your site by going to:
(www.yoursite.com/wp-login.php) or (www.yoursite.com/blog/wp-login.php)