How to Upload WordPress Website on cPanel

In this blog we will learn how to upload a WordPress website on Cpanel, this is an important topic mostly developer develop their website on the local server easily but they don’t know how to set up a WordPress website on a live server. Let’s see the following steps:

Step1:  Download WordPress from its official website you will get the zip file of WordPress, you can download from this link:

https://wordpress.org/download/

Step2: Open your Cpanel of web hosting, In Cpanel open file manager

Step3: DoubleClick on public_html

Step4: If you have single website hosting then click on the upload button and upload your zip file of WordPress which you have been downloaded, if you have multiple website hosting means you have hosted multiple websites on a single cpanel then you have to upload zip in your domain name directory.

Step5: After completion of upload zip file extract it.

Step6: Go back to Cpanel main screen, create a database for a website, click on MySQL database wizard.

Step7:  After opening MySQL database wizard, a screen appears to create a database, enter database name whatever you want or you have used on a local server, save database name in your notepad file, it will use on wp-config.php file further.

Step8: Create Database user and password.

Step9: Check all privileges, click on the next step button. You will see the completed task.

Step10.Open your domain name in the browser.

Step11:  Follow the steps of WordPress installation, in the second or third step you have to fill  your database name, a password that you have created in MySQL database wizard.

 

 

 

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