Installing the WordPress Files

Using Fantastico to install WordPress

Fantastico is a very popular script installer that several Web hosting providers make available to their clients. Fantastico contains different types of scripts and programs that you can install on your hosting account, notably, the WordPress software.

Here we make a few assumptions about your hosting environment:

✦ Your hosting provider has Fantastico available for your use.

✦ Your hosting account has the cPanel account management interface.

If your hosting provider doesn’t give you access to an installation script, such as Fantastico, skip to the next section in this chapter for the steps to install WordPress manually, via FTP.

 

Follow these steps to install WordPress with Fantastico:

1. Log in to the cPanel for your hosting account:

a. Browse to http://yourdomain.com/cpanel (where yourdomain.
com is your actual domain name) to bring up the cPanel login screen.

b. Enter your specific hosting account username and password in the login
fields and then click OK. The page refreshes and displays the cPanel for
your account.

2. Click the Fantastico icon.

The Fantastico page loads in your browser window and displays a list of
available scripts on the left side of the page, as shown in Figure 4-1.

3. Click the WordPress link in the Blogs heading.

The WordPress page loads, displaying a short description of WordPress and the version that’s available with Fantastico. (See Figure 4-2.)

Fantastico is a third-party script that exists as an add-on to cPanel.

Web hosts subscribe to Fantastico and add it to your cPanel as an extra
service for you to take advantage of; however, Web hosting providers
do not control which scripts, or which versions of scripts, are avail-
able within Fantastico. Web hosts are completely dependent upon the
makers of Fantastico as to what scripts and script versions are available.
Fantastico is usually about a month or so behind the game when updat-
ing the programs in its script installer.