Set Up WordPress

WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org/) is an open source blog server based on PHP and MySQL. It is available free of charge from the WordPress web site. You can run it on your own server or on any Internet Service Provider (ISP) server account that supports PHP and MySQL .

As a PHP and MySQL application, WordPress runs on almost any modern operating system, including Linux, Unix, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X.

By following the installation instructions (see http://wordpress.org/docs/installation/5-minute/) you can install WordPress in five minutes. After creating a user account, you can start to post and publish blogs on your very own blog server now! Out of the box, you can use Flickr to post photos to your freshly installed WordPress server. In the rest of this hack, I will discuss how to set up WordPress so that you can moblog with it without