Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server : Tips and Video

Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server is nothing new or very difficult.We pointed point in various guides to follow easy ways. Here are tips and Video. This video for Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server is just a visual guide, please do not follow it blindly, it is quite difficult to follow the on screen commands, rather it is more easy to follow the written guide after watching the video the way for Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server.

 

Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server : The previous guides you should read

 

In this Video for Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server, we have used a 4 GB Ubuntu 12.04 Next Generation Cloud Server. We have shown the minimum usage of command line interface, which is probably most suitable for the new users. We have suggested to use a Cloud Database (not shown in video) and use Cloud DNS (also not shown on video). These not shown parts are quite easy as you can simply go it in graphical interface from you Rackspace Cloud Control Panel. Furthermore there are many official video for Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server. These are guides which will help you :

 

Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server with Cloud Database (CentOS)

Install WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server (database on localhost/same server; CentOS)

 

Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server :  Tips

 

In the video for Installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server, you will notice that, after setup up LAMP server, downloading WordPress, we have used SFTP software WinSCP to delete the default Apache index.html file, move the files to root. This step is done to help the new users to understand where the files are actually resides. The only mentionable point is the login to :

 

Go one level up in WinSCP, you will notice the var folder, inside the var folder there is the www folder.

 

 

Still, those who find it difficult to manage, you can use OpenPanel or OpenApp on Rackspace Cloud Server, they are like cPanel control panel, but Open Source and free.