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Installing wordpress with media temple in 10 minutes

01/12/10 by Dario Gutierrez | Tutorials, Wordpress | Comments

In this tutorial we will see how to install wordpress in your website through Media Temple (mt) in just 10 minutes.

Overview

Since 2005 I used media temple for my websites and always I recommend this company for clients and friends. The control panel of any service is great, and the feature that I use is “one click applications” on grid service(gs).

Step 1

Go to media temple and login in your account when you did it will appear the main control panel like the following image.  Now select your domain or subdomain where you want to install wordpress and then click over “manage this server” option.

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Step 2

You must see several options for admin your domain, click over “1-click applications” like the following image and then click over “add new application”.

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Step 3

Now you see the application list like drupal, wordpress and zen cart, of course select wordpress clicking on start button.

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Step 4

In this step you must fill the application url (example: http://labs.dariux.com or dariux.com) and database name after that click on install button and wait for finish the installation. When finish the installation the process just clicking on finish button and automatically redirect to the application url that you type before.

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Step 5

In this window type the title of your blog and the email for admin this application and if you want allow visible for search engines like google check this option.

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Step 6

The last window is the login panel and the end for this tutorial.

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Conclusión

I hope this quick guide help you, wordpress is a great platform and it worth. If you have questions leave your comment and as soon as possible I will answer it. Thanks and see you next.

Install and run wordpress locally with MAMP for Mac OS X

09/06/09 by Dario Gutierrez | Tutorials, Wordpress | Comments

Sometimes is a little complicated work online with wordpress maybe because we are testing new features, plugins or improvements, or simply we are develop a new theme.

In my case a use a great application to run my wordpress locally and this is MAMP. Let see how to install and run wordpress in our MAC OSX.

Step 1

Go to http://mamp.info/en/index.html and dowload the latest version. After that just double click to begin to install MAMP.

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Step 2

When it will finish the installation you can find it under Applications > Mamp folder just click over the icon application to begin run the Apache and MySQL servers and you will see a little window and automatically run your internet browser with a start page server details.

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Step 3

Now we must download the latest version of wordpress so go to http://wordpress.org download it and unzip the content under htdocs.

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Step 4

Create a new database, so go to start page and click over phpMyAdmin and then just type a name for your database.

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Step 5

After that go to Applications > Mamp > htdocs and open to edit wp-config.php and configure your database based in your localhost the database name, user, password and host like the follow image

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Step 6

Open in your browser http://localhost:8888/mysite/wp-admin/install.php and that’s it you will see the wordpress setup page.

Conclusion

As you can see is fast to install our personal web server to test or develop wordpress themes, I hope you this will help you. See you!