Installing WordPress at one.com

You might have stumbled upon a couple problems while trying to install WordPress on your own newly acquired website hosted at one.com. Because of some small limitations in their service, the initial steps at wordpress didn’t work. However the following steps should make your journey through the jungle just a little bit easier.

(Initially following the true guide at WordPress)

1. Creating a database
After inquiring with one.com support I finally had to surrender to the fact that you are restricted to one database and one user at one.com. Shuffling myself after this defeat of a disorganized database for all your desires, the next challenges lay ahead.

2. Config.php
You’ll have to enter the all around databasename, username and password you received in your mail (hint: its the username and password that belong to mysql) Leave localhost as it is.
Personally I decided to change the table_prefix slightly. Rename …sample to config.php

3. Get hold of the plugin: wordpress-205-tuneup and put the plugin into the directory wordpress/wp-content/plugins

4. Upload your wordpress folder to your website. Personally I would keep the wordpress folder for tidiness’ sake, and not upload all the small wp files directly into your root directory.

5. Head over to http://www.your.site/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
After naming wordpress and filling in your email it’ll give you a username and password. Here the weird stuff might start.

6. Go to the login url http://www.your.site/wordpress/wp-login.php
Type in your username and password and hit enter. In my case it seemed to process, then spewed out a 302 Found document, telling me it had found itself. Well I reload and tred again. Nothing!

7. So I cheated I found the direct url to get to the plugin-page and pasted it in:

http://www.your.site/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php

Find the WordPress 2.0.5 Tune Up plugin in the list and click, Activate, to the right
Again you may be directed to another 302 page, so try hitting reload. It now directed me back to the plugins page and said it was activated.

8. But you’ll want your blog to appear in the root URL. ie. http://www.your.site and NOT http://www.your.site/wordpress . Because you’ll want your visitors to get to your blog as easily as possible.

9. Basically you need to do the following (Details at WordPress)
Go to Site admin -> Options (General)
Change Blog address to: http://www.your.site (stripping /wordpress/)
Click Update options
Then you need to (via ftp) copy index.php and .htaccess from your wordpress folder to your root directory and change the following code in your index.php file:
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); to require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

10. Congratulations, you are now ready to rumble *cough* blog.