Creating a WordPress Blog on an existing LAMP Server

            STEPS:

1. Log into your PhpMyAdmin account using your existing Database login. Ex. Username: dbadmin, Pass: certify

2. Go to User accounts. Then add a new user account.

3. For User Name use: wordpress, Click the drop down on Host Name and Select: Local, Password: certify, and Click the first checkbox under Database for user account.

4. Go to www.wordpress.org, on the top right click on Get WordPress, then click Download WordPress.

5. Extract the folder once it finishes downloading.

6. Open WinSCP, login with your created Database login. Ex. username: webadmin, pass: certify

7. Navigate to your root folder, then click on var, www, and then html.

8. Drag and drop your extracted wordpress folder into the html folder.

9. Open the folder and look for wp-config-sample.php.

10. Open the file with a text editor and Setup as follows (make sure to only remove the characters in quotations:

• DB_NAME: wordpress
• DB_USER: wordpress
• DB_PASSWORD: certify

11. Leave everything else as default.

12. Finally, on your web browser go to YourIP/wordpress and create a user login. To get back to the admin page go to YourIP/wordpress/wp-admin