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Setting up your blog will take slightly longer than putting up your first webpage, but once it's setup editing it and adding new pages is as easy e-mail.  
Setting up your blog will take slightly longer than putting up your first webpage, but once it's setup editing it and adding new pages is as easy e-mail.  


Of course, you can install and run any blogging software you like, but we've created a script that does all the hard work and installs the WordPress blog.
Although you can install any content management system you want on redbrick, Wordpress has a good installation guide which is easy to follow for new users.


Connect to RedBrick with PuTTY and run this command in your terminal:
To start go to [[Installing_Wordpress_on_Redbrick | Installing Wordpress]] and follow the instructions.
~receive/bin/install-wordpress
 
The install will take 5-10 minutes to run. While it's running you'll need to ask the admins for access to the MySQL database. To get this email admins(AT)redbrick.dcu.ie, tell them that you'd like MySQL access for your wordpress blog.
 
Once the installer has completed your blog will be located at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~USERNAME/blog. Go to that page in your web browser and click "the create a wp-config.php file through a web interface" link. Here you'll be asked for your name and e-mail address, as well as the MySQL details (the admins will e-mail them back to you)
 
If you want people to see your blog when they go to your website at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~USERNAME this can be done with a re-direct, just run this command in PuTTY
  cp ~receive/bin/wordpress-redirect.html ~/public_html/index.html; chmod 644 ~/public_html/index.html


== File Storage ==
== File Storage ==
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