Install wordpress blog : shell way
Congratulation on your hosting account, finally you have hosting account with your own domain. Now you ready to install wordpress blog engine in your hosting account.
Some common way to get wordpress installed are :
- Using installer, ex : fantastico
- Download wordpress files from wordpress.org either in tar.gz or .zip format, unzip it and upload it to server.
Now, I’ll show you how to use your shell account to install wordpress blog in quick and easy way 
The concept is same as number 2 use : I use windows xp as basis.
1. Login to your account using shell client, for example : putty
2. Choose one that suitable for your windows type.
3. Double click putty.exe to open connection window.
Enter hostname or ip address of your hosting and click Open to start.
It’s fine, first time visit A pop up window will appear, just click ‘Yes’.
3. Enter your login information. Username and password.
login as: rasy1000
rasy1000@hostingformula.info’s password:
Last login: Sun Mar 23 22:27:10 2008 from home.hostingformula.info
[rasy1000@wide ~]$
4. Find out real download location of wordpress file. By right click on icon.
At the moment of writing two location exact url are :
- http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
- http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
5. Now back to our $ prompt.
Download wordpress file from shell, just type this command.
[rasy1000@wide public_html]$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
–22:38:12– http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
=> `latest.tar.gz’
Resolving wordpress.org… 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip]
[ <=> ] 884,898 2.93M/s
22:38:12 (2.92 MB/s) – `latest.tar.gz’ saved [884898]
Very fast
6. Unzip/ extract the file.
For latest.tar.gz file just use this command :
[rasy1000@wide public_html]$ tar xvzf latest.tar.gz
……………………….
……………………….
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.gif
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php
wordpress/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
[ras10000@wide public_html]$
For latest.zip just use this command : download followed by extract.
[rasy1000@wide public_html]$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
–23:18:09– http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
=> `latest.zip’
Resolving wordpress.org… 72.233.56.139, 72.233.56.138
Connecting to wordpress.org|72.233.56.139|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
[ <=> ] 1,066,640 –.–K/s
23:18:10 (10.28 MB/s) – `latest.zip’ saved [1066640]
[ras10000@wide public_html]$ unzip latest.zip
……………………………..
…………………………………
inflating: wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.gif
inflating: wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php
inflating: wordpress/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
[ras10000@wide public_html]$
Done.
I can watch movie and replicate the job for other domain.
Next posting I’ll show how to create database using shell.
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