Installing WordPress manually using cPanel

1. download the WordPress archive from http://wordpress.org/download/ to your computer
2. unzip the archive to a temporary folder
3. upload the WordPress files to the server using FTP, in the folder where you want to install WordPress. On a cPanel server you can upload the files in the public_html folder (if WordPress will be installed on the main domain) or in a subfolder of public_html (if WordPress will be installed in a folder like https://www.yourdomain.ro/folder)
4. access cPanel >> MySQL Databases Wizard
5. in step 1 enter the name of the database; in step 2 you create a MySQL user and in step 3 you associate the user with the MySQL database you just created. Don't forget to write down all this information because you will need it later.
6. on your computer rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php
7. edit the wp-config.php file in a text editor (eg Notepad), using the connection information to the MySQL server above
   DB_NAME - the name of the MySQL database
   DB_USER - MySQL database user
   DP_PASSWORD - MySQL user password
   DB_HOST - MySQL server address (usually localhost)
8. upload the wp-config file to the server, in the folder where WordPress will be installed
9. access https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php
10. WordPress will take over the connection parameters to the MySQL server from the wp-config.php file
11. fill in the fields displayed in the browser (blog name, username, password, email) and click Install

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