Wordpress on 1&1 - is it this hard?

[Ed_itor]

I'm a new 1&1 dedicated server customer running Plesk10.
I want to put some WordPress sites up.
I tried installing WordPress from the Plesk control panel but it doesn't find it out of the box.
I discovered that it installed WordPress BELOW the HTTPDOCS directory.
1&1 gives you access only to that HTTPDOCS directory.
I ended up having to do the following to get it to work with the control panel tools provided.
* Create a customer/subscriber (set parameters)
* Go to subscriber control panel
* Go to websites and domains
* Create a database
* Add a database user

* FTP to the subscriber directory
* Delete EVERYTHING from httpdocs
* Add a Wordpress directory (just the top level)
* In Websites and Domains (Advanced operations) choose website scripting
* Change search path to "httpdocs/wordpress" (directory must be empty and \wordpress must be present to do this)
* Go back to FTP and now DELETE the single top level Wordpress directory
* Go back to the customer control panel and install Wordpress
* During install delete "Wordpress" from the path "httpdocs/wordpress" so that it installs at the root of httpdocs

Should it be this hard?

Ed

 

[IgorG]

Why you can't install WordPress in Plesk?
Did you try it?

 

[Jay Versluis]

I don't have that problem - WordPress installs into either root or a subdirectory (/wordpress by default) without a hitch. It's a true one-click-installer.

Make sure you have the correct webspace selected at the top.