Alibaba Cloud Virtual Host WordPress Website Setup Tutorial with Screenshots

This article teaches you how to build your own WordPress website on Alibaba Cloud's exclusive cloud virtual host. If you don't yet know how to use a virtual host to build a website, then you'll learn after reading this tutorial. (This article was written purely because a netizen asked, but Naiba does not recommend purchasing Alibaba Cloud virtual host to build a website; cloud servers and virtual hosts are the same price, so there's no need to buy Alibaba Cloud virtual host.) The virtual host configuration used in the tutorial is:

• Basic Edition
• Personal Beginner Website Building
• CPU/Memory 1 Core 1GB
• Database 500MB
• Web Space 5GB
• Peak Bandwidth 5Mbps
• 每月高速流量 200GB

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1. Check Virtual Host Information

首先，登录阿里云控制面板，找到云虚拟主机，如下图： 找到你购买的虚拟主机，点击后面的管理按钮。 其中，虚拟主机那个IP地址，就是你Domain Name Resolution需要添加的IP地址。 参考教程文章：Tutorial on DNS resolution for domains registered on Alibaba Cloud 进入虚拟主机详情界面，可以看到你虚拟主机的帐号信息。

2. Upload WP Installation Package to Virtual Host

接下来我们使用FTP软件把wordpress安装包上传到虚拟主机上面去。 需要用到的软件是Xsftp 6，可以到这里下载：#WebsiteBuilding# Free VPS Management Software Xshell6/Xftp6 Chinese Version 打开Xftp6软件后，点击新建按钮，出现下图的界面，跟着阿里云虚拟主机管理界面的帐号信息填写，然后连接。 FTP连接成功后是下面图片这样的界面，左边窗口是你电脑上的文件夹位置，右边是虚拟主机的文件夹位置，我们双击进入htdocs文件夹。 After entering the htdocs folder, delete the default homepage file zhuye.html. The logreport folder is a system file and cannot be deleted.Download the latest version of the WordPress installation package from the internet. The download address is as follows:WordPress New Version Chinese Simplified Local DownloadAfter downloading, we need to recompress an archive without the wordpress directory. Refer to the steps in the image below for specific operations:Tip: Compressing into a zip archive for upload is faster and has a lower error rate than uploading the entire folder.

① First, extract the downloaded WordPress archive. After extraction, you will get a folder named wordpress;

②、Navigate to the WordPress folder, select all files and folders, then right-click and choose 'Add to archive';

③、If your right-click menu directly has an option to compress as .zip format, simply select 'Compress to zip file'. If there is no option to compress as zip, choose 'Add to archive', then select the zip format in the interface and compress.

After compression is complete, in the Xftp software interface, upload wordpress.zip to the htdocs folder of the virtual host, as shown in the figure below:After the compressed file is uploaded, return to the Alibaba Cloud Virtual Host control panel, click 'File Management' - 'File Extraction' in the left navigation bar, as shown in the figure below:For file extraction, click 'Browse', then select wordpress.zip. For the extraction directory, click 'Browse' and select the root directory. Click the 'Submit' button. After extraction is complete, you can proceed to install WordPress via the website.

3. Install WordPress Website Program

Open your bound domain name, and you will see the WordPress installation interface, as shown in the figure below:During installation, you need to fill in the database information. Refer to the figure below and fill in according to the information provided in the Alibaba Cloud Virtual Host management panel, then proceed with the installation.Soon, your WordPress website will be installed.

4. Related Articles

After installing WordPress, you may also want to check out these articles.

• WordPress Beginner Tutorial 1: Admin Dashboard Settings
• WordPress Beginner Tutorial 2: How to Publish a Post
• WordPress Website Settings Optimization Tutorial
• WordPress Theme Installation Tutorial and Download Address Recommendations
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