Installing Wordpress in cPanel using Fantastico

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Wordpress is a popular blog engine written in PHP language. This engine stores the data in MySQL database.

This engine become popular because of its easiness and its features.

It is easy to install this blog engine. Almost all web hosting provide preinstalled script. You can easily install wordpress via the web hosting control panel.

If your web hosting doesn't provide preinstalled script you can download at their official web site Wordpress. The manual installation step is easy.

The Wordpress features includes:

• Support templating system, and there are many free Wordpress theme


• Integrated link management, and it is easy to manage it


• Search engine-friendly permalink structure, it is better for SEO result


• Support for plugins, there are many plugins that you can download for free


• Support for widgets, you can update your web page by moving the widgets


• Nested categories and multiple categories for articles


• Trackback and Pingback


• Typographic filters for proper formatting and styling of text


• Static pages


• Multiple authors


• Can store a list of users who visit your blog


• Can block site visitors by IP address


• Tag support

For more features you can see here.

cPanel is popular web hosting control panel. It handles many web hosting administration. This program is not free and designed for commercial web hosting.

If your web hosting provide cPanel control panel, you can access it from:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/cpanel or
http://www.yourwebsite.com:2082

You will meet the popup login form or login screen like this:


After you login to cPanel you will see many icons. This icons refer to such configuration. Each configuration will affect to your site. So be careful when you configure it.

Fantastico is commercial preinstalled script library. It will help you to automate installation some scripts especially Wordpress. Fantastico works for some web hosting control panel especially cPanel.

If you are using cPanel you can find the icon named Fantastico De Luxe. We will use this to install wordpress.


After you click on that icon you will go the installation screen like this:

After you go to your Fantastico page. You can start to install Wordpress.

1. Choose the Wordpress menu


2. Click 'New Installation' menu. And you will go to installation screen.

3. Choose your domain name where the blog will be installed.

4. Follow all steps.