Setting up the house!

February 21st, 2005 at 03:15pm

Ok. Here is what I did over the weekend.

• Signed up for the hosting package @ jodohost. Got a nice deal. Thanks to JD again for the referral ;)
• The package is pretty good. Do check it out here. Got lot of features.
• The registration process went on without any problem, and my account was ready almost instantly. Fully automated. Got mails too @ every step.
• Next step was setting up the account. And, moving my homepage. No problems here too. FTP zindabad.
• Then changed my nameservers @ my registrar. This process would take around 48hrs to reflect across the globe. So, by now, the DNS info should be updated all around the globe.
• Did a lot of R&D on the HSphere interface provided by jodohost to manage the site. Its cool, and easy to use. The account has tons of options.
• Hmm.. Next upon the list was, mails! Setup all my mail accounts and forwards. Now, I can do some filtering, (Spam and Antivirus) @ this level itself. Hopefully, this will give me some relief from spam
• End of day 1 (Saturday ; 3 AM)
• Day 2. WordPress installation and setup
• Downloaded WordPress @ home. Uploaded it.
• Created a mySQL Database
• Started the installation script. ……… It bombed :).. Why ? bcoz, I had given read/write privileges to the db user. Actually, I had to give lot of other privileges too. So, set it up using phpMySQL and again executed the install script. No issues this time at all. And the entire thing was done within 5 mins. That’s what the wordpress guys promise !
• Got familiar with wordpress. The next step was to move my existing stuff from blogger to my new home!
• Wordpress comes with a import utility for this job. The instructions are pretty clear, and the process is pretty simple. While executing this script, I came across some errors. dateYMDhour column is actually missing in the new table structure of WP 1.5. It has been changed to user_registered. So, I had to modified the script which imports the posts. Also, there is one more script which needs to be modified. Then, the imports went on fine.
• Almost done. Next up was templates for WP. There are lot of them on the net. Just search google!. Currently, I am using Quentin. I will have to do some tweaking to this template or may change the template with my own version! So watch out!

That’s about it!.
Next up : Making this blog an integral part of my site !

Do let me know your comments !

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