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Figure 11.5
Set up your
database in
your web
hosting
account
administra-
tion manager.
6. Here is where your decision on how much of your website
you want WordPress to manage is finalized. If you plan to
have WordPress manage your entire website (or your web-
site just consists of your blog), in the root directory of your
remote site, locate and rename your existing index.html
file to index.old or index.backup so you don't lose
either your existing home page or the default (in case you
someday decide to return to a more static presentation).
tip
There are two ways to approach
database and user naming. The
most secure method is to give
your databases names, user-
names, and passwords that won't
simplify some evil hacker's task of
vandalizing your blog. The down-
side of that is that maybe you
can't remember which database is
which on those rare occasions
when you want to change a con-
figuration setting in the database.
In any case, be sure to select a
secure password for your data-
base user. Meanwhile, if you're
looking to vandalize this blog,
don't bother. The user has been
changed.
7. Check the navigation in your host's administrative area and
return to your main control panel (sometimes called Home).
Locate the File Manager. Decide where you want to keep
the WordPress files. If you want WordPress to manage your
entire website, upload WordPress into the default folder,
also called the root directory. If you prefer that WordPress
just manage the blog portion of your site, create a subdirec-
tory called /blog or /WordPress or some other place. Then,
you can direct your blog readers to visit the subdirectory
http://< yourdomainname >/blog (or whatever). For the
purposes of this example, we'll use the /blog directory.
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