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WordPress

Tammy Dotson
Tammy Dotson
16,790 Points
Posted by Tammy Dotson
Tammy Dotson
16,790 Points

Wordpress ?

I have a local install of wordpress and have recently purchased a domain and was wondering do I need to install wordpress on my hosting account server also, it is available? I searched google but most of the answers are not very clear or overly complex for my question.

Edit: Ok I think the answer is just to upload the wordpress files to the server, is this correct? What if I want multiple wordpress sites?

4 Answers

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Tammy, try watching this video. It will show you the basics of moving a site from your local host to the server. Basically, you start by making a copy of your local files and SQL database. FTP the files on to the server. Use your server's MySQL tool to upload you local database onto the server. Once you have the files on the server there is a script that you need to run in order to change all the links stored in your DB from "localhost/whatever" to your site new domain name.

Muhammad Mohsen
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Muhammad Mohsen
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Muhammad Mohsen
Muhammad Mohsen
Courses Plus Student 10,843 Points

Hi Tammy,

You can install WordPress as many as you need, Every installation goes into it's own directory.

For example:

and so on.

OR

you can setup a network (http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network).

Tammy Dotson
Tammy Dotson
16,790 Points
Tammy Dotson
Tammy Dotson
16,790 Points

Thank you Andrew, I didn't realize that video was on here and I went through both wordpress tracks (both Excellent btw). So if I have 2 wordpress sites do I just repeat the whole process?

Tammy Dotson
Tammy Dotson
16,790 Points
Tammy Dotson
Tammy Dotson
16,790 Points

Ok great thanks guys that answers my questions, I appreciate your help.