Installing a Wordpress website
on a Blacknight Hosting Account
Login to your Blacknight Account
yourusername
Select Websites
• In the Blacknight control panel select
Websites from the top menu
Select Add New Website
• To install Wordpress you first need a
Domain Name
• You can select Add New Website to create
a subdomain or select an existing Domain
Name that you have purchased
Enter a Subdomain name
• In the Subdomain name text box enter a
name for your Subdomain
• Select the top level domain to add the
Subdomain to from the drop down select
menu on the right of the Subdomain name
text box
Select Website (Apache)
• Select Website (Apache) from the drop
down select menu in the Web Hosting
section
• If you are using an existing domain name,
you don’t have to make a Subdomain, just
select the Web Hosting - Website
(Apache) from the drop down menu
• Select Next
Select Next
• Select the checkbox to Install AWStats on
this domain if you want to use the Web
statistics tracker program AWStats for your
website. Google Analytics performs the
same task so I skip this.
• Select Next
Select Finish
• Check that all the details are correct and
select Finish
You are redirected back
to the Websites Section
• In the Websites Section, select the
domain you want to install Wordpress to.
Select Web Applications
• In the Summary Section, select
Web Applications
Select Install
• In the Web Applications Section select
Install
Scroll down to find Wordpress
• In the Install Web Application
Section, scroll down to the bottom
of the page to find Wordpress
SCROLL DOWN
Select Wordpress
• In the Install Web Application
Section, scroll down to the bottom
of the page to find Wordpress and
select Wordpress
Installing Wordpress Section
• In the Installing Wordpress
Section select Next
Edit the URL path, add a Login
Username and Password
• In the URL Path text box, remove
the text: wordpress leaving the
forward slash / or your domain name
will end in /wordpress
• In the Administrator’s
preferences section, enter
a Login Username and
Password, write these down
in a notebook as you add
them.
Enter an email address and a title,
select Next
• In the Main configuration section,
enter the email address you want to
use for the Wordpress website.
• Enter a title for the Wordpress website
• Select Next
Double check all the information is
correct and select Finish
• In the Installing Wordpress Section,
double check your Domain Name,
Login Username, Password, Email
Address and Title are correct
• Select Finish
Wordpress will be installed
to the selected domain name
• In the Web Applications Section of
the selected Domain Name, you can
see Wordpress has been added as an
installed application
• Logout of your Blacknight Account
Enter the Domain Name you installed Wordpress
to and view the default Wordpress theme