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designamigo
11-07-2008, 11:13 PM
I'm just a novice when it comes to web development.
I have a domain, which i have hosted it as addon domain in bluehost.
I would like to have a wordpress blog installed for the same.
I have already hosted the site. simple site , www.hamsameditation.com
I want to add a blog to the site
and would like my users to access the blog with the either of the following url
www.blog.hamsameditation.com
or
www.hamsameditation.com/blog

If you know how it is done, plz be specific enough to tell me the tiniest details, im very new to this webhosting things

If anyone thinks that adding a blogger instead of wordpress would do the trick , do tell me how it is done

Thank you all in advance

felgall
11-07-2008, 11:30 PM
1. Use the sub-domain manager in cpanel to create the sub-domain if you decide on that option. It will create a folder on your hosting to use for your blog. If you decide just to use a folder for the blog then simply create the folder.

2. The simplest way to set up a blog into your folder is to install WordPress from the Simple Scripts option in cPanel. You will need to identify the sub-domain or folder where you want it to install as one of the inputs needed during the install.

Early Out
11-07-2008, 11:36 PM
You can go to the Control Panel, Subdomains, and create a new subdomain called blog, and tell it to use the blog sudirectory for the contents of that sudomain (that's the default). Once you do, it can be accessed by any of the following addresses:

blog.hamsameditation.com
www.blog.hamsameditation.com
hamsameditation.com/blog
www.hamsameditation.com/blog

Now just install the blogging package of your choice from Control Panel, SimpleScripts (WordPress, for example), and install it to the public_html/blog subdirectory.

There are video tutorials about how to install and use Wordpress here: http://tutorials.bluehost.com/