Yipee…! I finally have my own domain, www.temp2escape.com.

First things first, download the latest version of Wordpress from http://wordpress.org/. Unzipped the file and transfer it to my domain using FileZilla (a free FTP client).

Log in to my Plesk (control panel provided for my Windows hosting) and create a new MySQL database called ‘wordpress’. Set up my user name and password as well.

Ok. The next thing needed to be done is the installation of Wordpress.

I tried to a few times installing on my own. I kept getting this kind of error… “couldn’t write…“. I have changed the directory to writable but I still get the same error.

Huh… I am so pissed.

I have installed Wordpress on my laptop before and everything went super fine.

I gave up. Solution? I contacted http://install4free.wordpress.net/ and requested them to do the installation for me. Install4free team provides free installation of Wordpress but you will need to pass every single information about your hosting. They need to access the domain. Yup… trust is very important here.

The next morning, I received an email from Michael Hancock (a representative of the team). They failed to do the installation even though my Windows hosting package support PHP 5.

” Unfortunately, WordPress will not install on an IIS server running PHP as FAST/CGI. If your host can run PHP as an ISAPI extenstion or you can change to a Linux plan let me know and I’ll install WordPress for you.

Also, with Plesk, many times there is a Setup option to use the ISAPI extension, but I could not find that. ”

ISAPI extension? I think I’ve seen it somewhere in Plesk when I was playing around with it.

Aha… I found it. The ISAPI extension can be set to ‘enabled‘ when I created a new sub domain — blog.temp2escape.com . I cannot change it for the main domain.

I replied to Michael and asked him to give it a try on the new sub domain.

Within a few hours, I received another email from him.

“The installation was successful. You fixed the ’server’ to use ISAPI and that was the important thing.”

I can see the Wordpress login screen when I pointed my browser to the sub domain. Wow… now I can really start writting!

But what about the main domain? Ermm… I’ll think about it later.

To be continue…

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