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Well, this is more than likely the last post to this blog as I have transferred it to my own host. Check out my progress over at php from scratch: the domain
The reasons for hosting my blog were tentatively listed in the previous post and to be honest I’m not not really sure why I have to do this. One reason could be that blogs hosted on your own domain seem so much more professional. The truth is very different though. Not that this isn’t going to be a totally professional website when it gets going. It is. Also, as the topic of this blog is php and as php is what powers this particular blog I think it is my duty to get used to all things php.
Transferring blogs and sites and stuff like that can be quite daunting for the beginner but it is usually quite easy. You may laugh but it is the truth. It is usually easy because most of these service provide guides that can be followed by idiots like me. Thank god!
To be honest I often end up uninstalling and deleting everything and reinstalling several times before I get it right. You can avoid this by reading the instructions more carefully that I do.
Before you start though you ought to check with your web host whether or not it supports cool software like wordpress. If not get yourself a new host. I will recommend some at a later date. If there is a link page you will find it there.
Well in my next post I will detail my success or failure.
phpfromscratch.com will be the new home of php from scratch. It makes all kind of sense. You may be wondering why I chose to host the blog on my own domain. Well, you have probably noticed that there are some limitations to blogs hosted on wordpress.com and that is one of the reasons I want to host it myself.
Another reason is that I want to keep all the php stuff that I learn on the same domain. I will easily be able to link to examples of pages that I have created and such like.
I also like having domains, it’s just cool.
If you have been following my progress you will have downloaded the php plug-in already. If not just check the previous post. Anyway, compared to the Lynda.com complimentary video the versions we are using will be newer until of course Lynda.com update their videos and then the version that I will be using here will be outdated. Techmology….
Well just double click the icon and install. It should be smart enough to install in the right directory.
Below you can see some of the differences between versions but don’t be afraid. Don’t be very afraid. ……?
As you technology is developing at a rapid pace and that includes php. So it is very difficult for Lynda.com to redo their videos whenever there is a slight change. A rule of thumb when installing software is: when in doubt choose yes. Below are the steps to install WAMP but that was yesterday, tomorrow may be different.
Anyway the first step is to double click on the icon and the following screen should appear. If you don’t know where the icon is you can check the previous post and be more careful where you download it to.
Of course you should press next and in the following page you can use the default folder as below but I follower Lynda.com’s lead and created a program_files folder in the c: directory and installed there. Notice the underscore in program_files. Don’t mistake it for the already existing program files folder.
Press next and next.
Check auto start and press next.
Press install.
Choose the www folder which will have been created.
Leave it as localhost and press next.
Choose an appropriate email and, yes, you guessed it, press next.
Around here it differs from the video but this is where my years of pc experience came in handy. I somehow just new instinctively that I ought to press next.
You will notice that it detected firefox because that is my browser of choice and it should be yours too.
Uncheck “Launch WAMP5 now”and then press finish.
Yeah, we’re done. At least partly anyway. There is still some php plugin afffair. I will get to that later though.
