How to Host a WordPress website On Linux Hosting? Today I am going to share with you the very easy steps to host any WordPress website on Linux hosting.
In the present scenario, the WordPress Content Management System is at the boom. A huge number of people around the world are using this CMS for making blogs due to its compatibility with Search Engine Optimization.
The websites can be easily ranked in google because of its clean Url Structure, Page speed optimization plugins, Search Engine Optimization plugins.
Most of these plugins are available free of cost on the internet. We do not need to spend any penny for it. We can use these plugins for optimizing our website.
Related Article: 7 best wordpress plugins
This Content Management system has been developed using PHP language. There are a number of blogging platforms available on the internet. But the WordPress has proven to be the most popular among the people. At present, there are two types of platforms available which the users can choose from.
These are as follows:
- WordPress.com
- WordPress.org
If we consider the first one for making our blog, then the website is hosted by WordPress itself and we will be assigned a sub domain website. E.g. yourname.wordpress.com. The biggest benefit of hosting a website on .com platform is that it will cost nothing to the user.
However, with its advantages, there are certain disadvantages as well, which we can suffer if we host our website on it. Some of them are mentioned below:
- The certain features like plugins cannot be used.
- Also, there will be random ads displayed on your website from wordpress.com
If we use the other platform of it i.e.Org, then we need a Linux hosting for our domain to host WordPress on it. Users can choose to host their website on any Linux hosting of their choice.
There are very easy steps to host a WordPress website on the Linux hosting. These are as follows:
Step 1: To host it on Linux hosting, we need to download the latest WordPress archive from wordpress.org and properly unzip it to make sure that all files are extracted.
Step 2: Upload the extracted files on the hosting, using FTP or Control Panel.
Step 3: After uploading all the files, just rename the WP-config-sample. PHP to WP-config. PHP and edit it to make changes in the database connection, database user, database password and hostname. By default, the host is set to local host.
Fill in your database related details in the following lines:
Define (’DB_NAME’, ”); // The name of the database
Define (’DB_USER’, ”); // Your MySQL username
Define (’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); //… and password
Define (‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
Step 4: Now, you just need to Open up your domain URL and it will ask you to complete the installation wizard.
Step 5: Enter your blog name and valid email id and click on the install WordPress to complete the installation process.
Step 6: Enter some secure Username and password for your website to login in future.
Step 7: Now, your CMS is installed and ready to use. Open up the URL: http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin to log in with the Username and the password you have just assigned above.
Step 8: Now you can make changes to the themes and other plugins to set up a good website.
I hope this article will guide you to easily host your website on a Linux hosting using the WordPress platform. Subscribe to us for latest updates about the latest technology.