The installation process for WordPress MU has been designed to be user-friendly. Therefore, as long as you have the database connection information we created earlier in this chapter, the installation should go quite smoothly.
Download the latest version of WordPress MU from http://mu.wordpress.org/download/.
Open the archive file and extract the contents of the
wordpress-mu
folder to thewww
folder in yourWAMP
directory.Use your favorite FTP client to upload the contents of the
www
folder to the document root folder on your live server. On most servers theroot
folder will be called eitherwww
orpublic_html
.Browse to the live version of your site—in our case
slayercafe.com
. You should see a page like the following:If there are any warnings about file permissions, you can fix these using your FTP client. Right-click on the folders mentioned in the Quick fix section and select File Attributes. In the screen that appears, enter 777 in...