Of course WordPress is the best blogging platform in the blogosphere.Wordpress is developed by Matt Mulenberg.Wordpress offers a huge number of the plugins which automate the most of the manual work.
So in order to start blogging with the WordPress we have to two choices either use the WordPress on WordPress.com or installing WordPress on our own server.
I would recommend to buy a domain name from Godaddy ,the webhosting from Hostgator etc. and install WordPress over there.For installing WordPress we need a PHP hosting with Mysql at the backend.
The hosting company will provide us with the cpanel.The Url of cpanel would be www.yoursitename.com/cpanel or some IP 00.00.00.00/cpanel.
Assuming that you have already downloaded the WordPress from official WordPress site WordPress.org.
Now before doing the install we have to setup the database which is used by WordPress.
Setting Up database in Cpanel Hosting.
Now in order to set up the database :
1. First of all click on the MySql Databases in the Control Panel.
2. Now enter the name of the database and click on create database .
3. Now create a user for that database,we can also use existing user to it but if there is no user present then we have to create a new user.For creating a new user Enter the name of the user and write password twice and click on create user and click on All privileges.
4.The last step is to add that user to the database previously created.Just select the user from the drop down menu and the database from 2nd dropdown and add user.
In this way our database is finally create now we have to move to WordPress install.
Installing WordPress on cpanel based hosting server
1.Upload the WordPress zip file to your server public html directory (file manager)
2.Now extract the WordPress files and move them to public html folder.
3.Now on the browser name write the name of your site then click on the create configuration file.
4.On the next step provide the details of the database in various fields like Database name,username,password.Keep the host as it is and table prefix.
5.After that click on run the install and enter the site title,admin username,password,and email address.Click submit and Wordpress will be install.
Now In order to manage the site go to admin area www.yoursitename.com/wp-login.php and login with admin user name and password and do whatever you want.
We also have another method for installing WordPress on our sever by editing the configuration file Here we have tell the WordPress which database to be use by it by editing wp-config-sample file.First rename it to the wp-config.php and change few following lines it using editor.
define('DB_NAME', 'dbname'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'dbusername'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'dbpassword'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // Most of the time you won't need to change this value Next we have to do same thing upload the files where we want to install WordPress like in the root directory or in any sub directory. When file are uploaded go to the go to /wp-admin/install.php. by pointing browser to the www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/install.php and you will be on the WordPress install page just do the step 5 above and WordPress will be installed. Most of the hosting companies gives the third party tool like Softaculous and Fantastico to install WordPress in easy steps.To know how to install using them click here.