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Installing and Upgrading

WordPress is famous for its five-minute installation. Many commercial web hosts offer one-click installation from their account control panels. If your host does not, you can upload the WordPress files to your web directory. You can complete the installation using the web interface, or you can create a configuration file based on the sample included in the WordPress download.

System Requirements

WordPress's requirements are modest. At minimum, your server should support:

  • PHP version 4.3 or greater
  • MySQL version 4.0 or greater
  • For clean URLs, a URL rewriting module that understands .htaccess directives, ...

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