Installing Wordpress On A Plesk Server
Installing Wordpress 2.7.1 On Plesk
For most people out there in the blogosphere with their own self hosted Wordpress Blog, they use the Cpanel Server. Installing a Wordpress Blog on Cpanel is as easy as pressing the install button and is very simple to do. However, there are quite a few who are using a Plesk Server and if you wanted Wordpress installed, it was usually a case of getting a geeky friend to do it for you, especially when you had already messed it up and it needed fixing quickly.
I have produced a video of how to Install Wordpress on Plesk, although I want to write something of a transcript to make the process even easier for you at home. First things first though, so enjoy the video and I’ll see you under it in a few minutes.
Plesk Control Panel
- You need to login to your Plesk Control Panel where your domain has already been set up before hand. From here you will have to choose the Database icon and add new Database.
- Once you have added a new DB you can assign it a name, or use the one that automatically appears there.
- Select the add new user icon and once done, assign a name of the DB user.
- You will now have to assign a Password to the Database User.
Download Wordpress
- Head on over to wordpress.com/download/ and save the latest version to your local hard drive in a new folder.
- Navigate to where you saved the file, and unpack the Zip file to the same directory.
Editing The Wordpress Configuration File
- Open up wp-config-sample.php in a text editor such as notepad, and you will have to now change and insert the Database values you made earlier. This means Database name, Database User Name, and the Password as well.
- Save the file as wp-config.php and remember to save the file as ‘all file types’ and not a s a text file.
FTP Your Wordpress Files To The Server
- Using Filezilla or similar, connect to your server with your FTP login and in the local view navigate to where you unpacked all the Wordpress files.
- In the remote view, navigate to httpdocs (or possibly public_html) and then move the entire contents of the wordpress folder across to that directory.
- This will take several minutes, as there is about 500 or so files that need to be uploaded.
Installing Wordpress
- Through your web browser like Firefox, type in your URL where you installed Wordpress (www.mydomain.com) and if everything worked you will come to a welcome to Wordpress page.
- Enter your Blog’s Title and your email address and click the make blog visible on Google (you do want to be found right) and then press install Wordpress.
- Success. Wordpress has been installed and your username and password will appear. These will be emailed to you instantly too.
- From here, you can log in via the button, and every time after you can do so from www.mydomain.com/wp-admin
So that’s it folks. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and you now have the knowledge to be able to install Wordpress on Plesk for yourself instead of finding the nearest geek (no offence to the geeks).
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You have outdone yourself with this post Clint. Way to go! Video and written instructions always compliment each other. Thanks for this.
Thanks Ange, I kinda like it myself =)
well done Clint this is really good when can i book an appointment.
Regards Richard Colum
For you Richard, any time mate. Great to hear from you again…
Well done Clint! I love the video and the step-by-step guide! I’m one of those using Plesk at the moment and this will really come in handy! =)
Good stuff Clint, certainly is helping me out with my (at times temperamental) Wordpress blog.
Thanks a lot for the detailed video of Installing Wordpress.I am also using Plesk and this video helped me lot thanks a ton clint!!!
Thanks for the positive feedback guys, great to know it has helped you all =)
Thanks clint. What is a plesk server??
Verbatim from Wikipedia Annie
“Parallels Plesk Control Panel allows a server administrator to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface. The administrator can create client and site templates, which predetermine resource allocation parameters for the domains and/or clients.”
It’s your back end hosting panel, similar to Cpanel, which most people seem to use more often than not.
I did everything mentioned here, but when I browse to the page, it is blank. It doesn’t say page not found, but neither does it bring up the Wordpress installation page. I found a site that mentioned something about plesk not designating enough ram to that page, but I have no clue what to do about that.
Not to sure what is happening here Preston, although you could try repeating the steps from the beginning and see how you go.
It is really nice when someone think about this type of difficult matter and make it easy to understand.
Thank you, you added me so much.
This is a lot better than what I’ve been seeing elsewhere lately. If we had more like it around, I think we’d be better off.
Thanks for the useful information on php websites.
Liked your site and will bookmark it for future.
Finally found the info I needed thanks to your great blog, thanks! ^^
It sounds hard, but this made it more easier for me, thanks
How do you do it if the site is not live yet ( so dns is not configured to the actual domain yet ?
I can get so far, but when I try to login it fails.
cheers Dave
@Dave Porter – You will need to change the nameservers where you registered the domain before you can continue on and follow this tutorial. If in doubt contact your registrar and they can help you.
Just wanted to say thanks heaps for this awesome tutorial. It made setting up Wordpress on our new domain a total breeze. Cheers!
Hello Maher,
I’ve got a serious problem..:S Please help me.
The problem is that-after perfectly uploading all the files in httpdocs…I return to the website address and without showing the wordpress window its requires a username and password…I’m using parrallels Plesk 9.3…is it possible that the people from whom I bought the hosting,lock my hosting to prevent installing this kind of third party application in this hosting??
Please ASAP answer…
I’m totally depressed about it..:(
@Goutam_Bangladesh – No need to be depressed. I suggest you speak with your hosting company and ask them to look at it for you. They should provide some support.
If you followed all the steps in the video tutorial it should be there. Good luck!
Hi, thanks so much for your tutorial, and I got up to the point where wordpress welcome page appears and when i click install wordpress it encounters 404 not found error,
I don’t know what i’m doing wrong, i have followed everything, but somehow run into this little problem, Please help me