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8. Open your FTP client and upload the WordPress files. You can either upload the Zip archive and
extract it into your preferred folder, or extract the archive into a folder on your hard drive and
upload the entire structure. What works best depends on your host.
Get Permission First!
Many, if not most, host companies employ Linux or UNIX as the operating system for their servers.
As a measure of security, these systems employ a set of permissions allowing groups of users to
access files. Each file has an owner and is assigned a group when it is created. Read, Write, and
eXecute permissions are set for three types of users: Owner, Group, and Others (that is, the rest of
the world).
Your FTP client should display the permissions on the remote system either as a string of permis-
sions like this: rwxrwxrw- or as octal (base 8) numbers like this: 776. In the case of this exam-
ple, the Owner and Users have full Read, Write, and eXecute permissions to a file. Others can read
and write, but cannot execute.
Be sure that your FTP client got the permissions correct when it uploaded your files. These tell
WordPress who gets access to its files. Generally speaking, your content and theme files should be
listed as rwxrwxrw- (or 776), your plug-ins folder should be listed as rwxrw-rw- (766), and the
admin and includes folders should be set as rwxr--r-- (744).
Your FTP client should allow you to change permissions for any file or group of files. Select the
file(s), right-click in the highlighted area, select Properties, and then make the changes.
Your website's host is now prepared to receive data from WordPress. You have a database to hold
your blog's content, along with all the design elements of your blog pages. It's time to begin the
Famous Five-Minute Install.
The Five-Minute Hosted WordPress Installation
Now you're almost there. You have the files uploaded to the correct directory, and you have your
database set up. Let's do the famous five-minute WordPress installation!
1. Go to http://< yourdomainname >/blog. If you did everything correctly in the last set of steps, you
should see a mostly empty screen with a Create a Configuration File button (see Figure 11.6).
Click it.
2. Some more introductory language appears, with a Let's Go! button. Click that button.
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