In this tutorial, I will teach you how to install WordPress via Fantastico on a subdomain created from cPanel.
Phase 1 – Creating a subdomain
1) Login to your cpanel (domain.com/cpanel)
2) Enter user and password
3) Locate your subdomain icon, should be a dark folder (click it)
icon subdomain
4) Enter in the subdomain youd like to use..in my case.. –”marketing.webmasterpunk.com”
subdomain
5) Select “Add”
6) Your subdomain has now been setup. Easy right?
You can now go back to your home cPanel page, or close the screen and login again.
Phase 2 – Installing WordPress on your new subdomain
1) Lets go back to your control panel
www.domain.com/cpanel (this is only if you have cpanel linux hosting)
2) Locate “Fanstastico De Luxe” (the big blue smiley face, yes hes cute right?)
fantastico
3) Click the smiley face
4) You should be presented with a list of menu items on the left, look for WordPress.
5) After clicking it, you will be presented with a few options.
6) Select New Installation (its in bold, you cant miss it!)
7) Now you should see a bunch of fields and dropdowns. Follow my screenshot below.
Note: My screenshot will install WordPress on – Marketing.webmasterpunk.com (which is the root level)install wordpress
Notice how I left the install directory blank? Thats because I want -”marketing.webmasterpunk.com” to be the directory of the isntallation, if you enter in /blog or /news – it will install the blog on a directory under your subdomain such as “marketing.webmasterpunk.com/games/” which I dont really advise people to do.
9) Enter in your login information, password, admin nickname, email, site me, and a description of what your blog will be about.
10) Click install WordPress
11) This wil automatically install and update WordPress into your subdomain.
12) Click Finish installation and you are done.
This is my subdomain blog. : http://marketing.webmasterpunk.com/
To access your subdomain: http://subdomain.domain.com
To access your wordpress admin panel: http://subdomain.domain.com/wp-admin
Note: Do NOT enter http://www (WWW) will not work in most cases.
Enjoy!
