How to Install WordPress on Your Remote Hosting
Last Updated: May 14, 2024
In this article, I will show you the quickest and easiest way to Install WordPress on Your Remote Hosting.
If you are new to WordPress and still don’t know how to install WordPress on your remote hosting, this article serves precisely to demystify this for you.
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Definition of Remote Hosting
Remote hosting is the physical machine where your website files will be hosted and ready to be displayed whenever one of your end users (clients, readers, etc.) requests them.
First of all, know that the remote hosting I’m referring to, is the hosting provided by a third-party company like Namecheap where I have my websites hosted.
If you have your own remote hosting, then I assume you are technically skilled enough to install WordPress there and this article is not for you.
If you still don’t understand the concepts of domain and hosting, I suggest you read my article about domain and hosting and then come back to this article to see how to install WordPress on your remote hosting. We then move on to action:
Before Installing WordPress
Before installing WordPress on your remote server, it is advisable to first create an email account already associated with the domain registered for your website’s hosting account.
When installing, you will then need to provide an administrator email, which could even be your personal one, if you don’t want to create one associated with the domain for this purpose, but it’s recommended that you do so.
This way you will have a professional email, exclusively for managing your WordPress website.
If you still don’t know how to create a professional email on your server, see this article of mine in which I demystify precisely How to Create a Personalized Email with Your Domain.
Installing WordPress on Your Remote Hosting
If you already have a hosting account where you want to host your website, you must have received credentials to access your cPanel.
If you have already created your personalized email with the domain, you can proceed with the installation.
Access your hosting account’s cPanel (in my case I’m using Namecheap) and look for the Softaculous tool as shown in the image below.
After accessing Softaculous you will notice that it has several installable apps within it. That’s right, Softaculous is an application installer on your server. Therefore, click on the install button in the WordPress section as shown in the image below.
After clicking on install, we are presented with the form with the options that we must define for the installation.
The first field will automatically appear set to HTTPS if your hosting plan includes installation of an SSL certificate, if the certificate is not already installed it will only appear set to HTTP, but I strongly advise you to wait for the SSL to be active before proceeding with the installation.
In the section shown in the image below you only have to define the domain (normally it is displayed automatically) and an internal folder if you wish, but that’s not advisable, so leave it exactly as in the image.
Once again, I strongly advise you to wait and abort the installation if you don’t have SSL enabled. Nowadays it’s practically mandatory to have SSL to be able to provide an HTTPS connection for a website to have a good reputation on the internet. So, if you don’t have one, purchase one together with one of the hosting plans from your chosen company.
For example, at Namecheap (where I have my websites hosted) the installation of the SSL certificate is free and occurs automatically a few minutes after activating the hosting account.
Continuing to Fill Out the Installation Form
In the image below, we have the second frame of the WordPress installation form, where we must then define the name of the site, the description, the administrator username (please, do not leave it as admin, define a username for yourself that is difficult to guess by hackers), and we also define a password, preferably with large and small letters, numbers, and special characters to be as secure as possible.
Continuing to scroll down, we reach the third frame of the form.
In this table, we can define the installation language we want for our WordPress, and on the right side, as shown in the image below, we have available for pre-installation, a series of plugins that can be useful, such as Backuply, which is a plugin that allows you to perform scheduled backups of your WordPress installation.
In this case, I will just leave Loginizer, which is a plugin that allows you to control the number of wrong login attempts on the website, and thus improve its security, preventing brute force attacks by malicious hackers.
In the next table, I will show you a better solution for scheduled backups of your website, so you should only leave the third table, as I recommended and as the image below illustrates.
Arriving at the end of the Form, we still have a table that interests us. The “Advanced Options”. Which we will expand, as shown in the image below.
After clicking on the “+” sign to expand the Advanced Options box, we then have the chance to define the name of the database for our WordPress site. In this case, we will leave it as is.
The part that interests us is the “Automated Backups” and “Backup Rotation” fields, that is, the number of backups prior to the last one that we want to keep on the server.
Leave it exactly as shown in the image below.
At the end, you also have the option of choosing an email to receive the installation details, and then yes, you can enter a personal email so that the installation details can be sent to you.
You can also choose to pre-install a theme, but this can then be done in the WordPress administrative area, so you can just click install and WordPress will be installed.
In the image below we see the progress of installing WordPress on Softaculous. It usually takes less than 1 minute.
Once installed, you should see the screen represented in the image below with the final credentials and access links to your new WordPress installation.
When you click on the first URL you should access the home page of your already installed website as shown in the image below.
The theme installed by default will be updated over the years. Every year, WordPress developers create a new theme to serve as the initial theme and name it after the year in question, spelled out in English.
In this case, what we see in the image below installed, is the Twenty-Twenty-Four (2024) theme. By then accessing the WordPress theme repository, you will have access to thousands of free themes.
You can also find high-quality and customizable paid themes on the Envato Market at very affordable prices.
Conclusion
Installing WordPress on Your Remote Hosting is a walk in the park with Softaculous.
Have fun with your new WordPress installation.
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