From EZP Knowledge Base
While installing your own wordpress blog may sound intimidating, it is really quite easy thanks to Fantastico.
Fantastico is a third party cpanel control panel addon that lets you install many of the common web applications into your account with just a few clicks and by filling out a couple of fields. Before you start installing Wordpress, you should ensure that there is enough space available in your hosting account for the program files. Also, you should ensure that the account you are using has "privileges" to add/create the require database. If you do not have enough space or you are on a custom package with no database privileges, then your install will fail. All of our Virtual hosted packages at EZP come with plenty of space and the ability to create as many databases as you need!
While this document in particular describes installing the popular Wordpress blogging software using Fantastico; installation of other software's are pretty much the same. Fantastico greatly simplifies the task of installing software on your account.
The steps to install Wordpress are:
1. Log into your cPanel account and click the Fantastico icon
2. A window should open up and show the list of available applications that Fantastico can install for you
3. Select Wordpress and a new page will open showing a short description of the software. Click on the "New installation" link to install a copy of Wordpress. You can install Wordpress to either a domain, a sub-domain or simply to a directory under your main domain
4. Enter the details required to administer the Wordpress installation. This will be the admin username and password, the administrative email address, your website name, website description etc. When satisfied with the info, click on the link "install Wordpress" Fantastico will automatically create the reqiured database and install Wordpress for you, You can administer the Wordpress installation using the URL: http://Yourdomain.com/wp-admin/
Login with the admin username and password you specified during the installation - remember if you installed it in a sub-domain or a subdirectory, you will need to enter that in the URL as well, for example:
http://sub-domain.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/
or
http://yourdomain.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/
A great plugin which you may want to try out would be Askimet (http://akismet.com/). This wordpress plugin automatically filters out comments on your articles that are spam.
In order to use Askimet you must have Wordpress.com API keys. Instructions on how to get your API key is here:
http://wordpress.com/api-keys/
Once you have your API keys, you can install Askimet by following these steps:
1. Download Askimet from http://akismet.com/download/ and unzip it
2. Upload the unzipped folder to your Wordpress installation folder's wp-content/plugins directory
3. Login to your wp-admin and activate the plugin from the plugins menu. Enter the API key when asked for it
Thats it; Askimet will automatically start filtering the comment spams that you receive on your Wordpress blog!