Installing WordPress
WordPress is an extremely popular open source content management system. It's ease of use combined with a huge number of plugins and themes mean it is used by more than 60 million websites, including 1/3 of the top 10 million sites.
This guide is aimed at the novice user, but will result in a self-updating WordPress install, supporting the vast majority of themes and plugins with minimal security concerns.
You will need
- A server running Sympl
- A basic server with 1GB of RAM, 1 core and 10GB or more of disk space should suffice for moth sites.
- If you already have a server running Sympl, you can use that.
- Basic familiarity with SSH
- This can be done via the VGA/VNC console, but it's easier to copy and paste over SSH.
- MacOS and Linux have built-in SSH clients. PuTTY is a popular SSH Client on Windows
- A domain name to host the site on
- You can use any domain you have access to, but will need to point DNS records to the server for it to be publicly visible.
- If you're testing, you can edit your hosts file to test before updating the DNS.