After purchasing a domain and configuring all your DNS Records, you’re ready to install a WordPress website on your hosting server!
In this video, I show you the steps of using cPanel, a hosting dashboard provided by many major hosting companies, and use the open-source software tool Softaculous to install WordPress.
If you’re setting up a secondary WordPress website on your hosting server, you’ll need to configure Addon Domains, Subdomains, or Aliases before installing a WordPress website.
Watch the next video to learn about Configuring Addon Domains, Subdomains, and Aliases – Part 6 of Setting up a New Domain with WordPress:
https://youtu.be/VzEqGqkJ5so
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Transcript:
Hey everyone! This is Brandon from Gaucho Plugins, the development team behind Domain Mapping System.
In the last video, I configured all the DNS Records I need for my new domain.
I already configured the A Record to point to my website hosting server, so now all I need to do is install WordPress.
I’ll log into my hosting control panel dashboard. Keep in mind, you might have a different dashboard provided by your hosting company.
cPanel is really common among major web hosts, and I like it’s ease of use and flexibility.
If you purchased your web hosting using your domain in the signup process, then you shouldn’t need to add your new domain to your hosting control panel.
If your new domain is an Addon, subdomain, or Alias of your primary domain, the next video will cover configuring those options.
The new domain I purchased in the first video of this series is an Alias, but for most people who haven’t set up WordPress yet, I’ll spend the rest of this video on that.
To install WordPress, we’ll go into Softaculous, an awesome tool for installing hundreds of apps of all kinds.
WordPress is featured on top, so I’ll click install.
You have to configure some basic settings here, such as your site name, description, admin username and password.
At the bottom, you can choose to email your installation details to yourself.
Click Install, and within a few seconds, your WordPress website should be working properly!
If you’ve already configured DNS properly, you shouldn’t have any further DNS configuration to do.
If you’re adding multiple domains to a single hosting instance, the next video covers how to set up Addon Domains, Subdomains, and Aliases.
