Thanks for tuning back into my Adventure of creating this web site. Yesterday I concluded with the payment process. Shortly after finishing this process, I received an email with a number of login locations, username and passwords for my brand new web site. The most important login information was for my site’s cPanel. cPanel is software that you use to log in to configure and manage your web site.

cPanel has a number of sections. The first is a Preferences section. This includes a Getting Started Wizard as well as Video Tutorials. I would definitely suggest checking some of these tutorials out. Section 2 is Mail. You can actually create and manage email addresses based on the domain name that you purchase. For example, I created a blitwin(at)adventuresinhosting.com. The third section is where you can actually manage files, including uploading files that you can use on your web site and managing those files. The next few sections I am going to skip, mainly because I do not know much about what those contain at the time being.

I am going to skip down to section 8 called Software/Services. This section includes a feature called Fantastico De Luxe. Fantastico is a system which makes it very easy to install web applications to a web site. This is where I had to choose what sort of software I wanted to use to run my blog. My choices were b2evolution, Nucleus, pMachine Free and WordPress. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I have started free blogs before and was familiar with WordPress, so that was the blog provider I chose. After making my selection, I needed to choose “New Installation”.

The next page was a little tricky. It asks “Installation location”. I wanted my site to be actually located at http://AdventuresInHosting.com, so I left this blank. If I wanted it to be located somewhere such as http://AdventuresInHosting.com/blog, then I would have entered /blog under the field “Install in directory”. The next section was called Admin access data and this is where I put in my username and password that I would use to log into WordPress to edit my blog. I made sure to write this login information down as it is very important. The next section was called “Base configuration”. I just skipped this section. The final section was called “E-mail account configuration”. Above I discussed that you are able to create email addresses for your domain. It turns out that this was actually required at this point in the process. I needed to take a step back to create an email address.

I scrolled up to the top of the page and opened the Control Panel in a new page so I wouldn’t lose what I had already filled out up to that point. Once at the Control Panel home again, I selected Email Account under the Email section. I filled in blitwin to the email field as well as the password and a password confirmation. Once I had those fields filled out, I created my new email address. Now I could go back and fill the E-mail account configuration fields with my newly created E-mail account username and password. After that, I clicked “Install WordPress”. My blog software was now configured and I could edit my web site. Cool!

I need to wrap this up, but to log into your WordPress software, you add /wp-login.php to the end of the URL of what you selected for “Installation location” above. For example, if you chose your installation location to be http://1234.com/blog, you would be able to access your WordPress software at http://1234.com/blog/wp-login.php and log in with your username and password.