Hey everyone! This is Scott from sertmedia.com and in this video I'm gonna be
showing you how to install on Cloudways a new WordPress instance. As I showed you
in the last video, I showed you how to set up Cloudflare, which is your CDN and
DNS provider, but in this video I'm gonna be showing you how you can install
WordPress on a host. In this case, Cloudways. Cloudways is my recommended host
because it's fairly inexpensive compared to most on the market and it has really
good performance. I managed to reduce my costs by about 50% for the year compared
to SiteGround. So, I'm gonna be showing you how to add
an application and I'm gonna be giving you some general pointers to get your
domain ready. So, what you need to do is you need to click the add application menu.
This can be done from a number of places, but really what you need to do is on
your home page click on applications. You're then gonna click on the add
application mark. You're gonna go ahead and select the server. In this case,
I'm doing it on my personal sites server, so that way it's for my personal websites.
How you categorize it as completely up to you and then you're going to select
the application that you're looking to install. If you're looking to install
WordPress in general you can just install the version that it
suggest up here. If you're watching this a few months from now it may be a newer
version such as 5.4, which is the most current version and if you're looking to
have WooCommerce this will automatically install WooCommerce for you as well. If
you're creating a store, it's typically a good thing to have WooCommerce installed
because it will make changes to the varnish cache system but if you
install WordPress and install WooCommerce later it's no
problem we can easily add that. So what you're going to do is, just install
version 5.3 and then you're gonna name your app. In my previous video I set up
the name servers for a website called Nashville Unbound. And I'm gonna call
this website Nashville Unbound. And then I'm gonna click add application so it's
gonna go ahead now and it's gonna take about two minutes and it's going to go
ahead and install the general application information. But it's a
little bit more complicated than that afterwards, but that's okay. We can easily
get the domain attached. You see what it's doing right now is is setting up an
application with a default Cloudways auto-generated domain name. The benefit
here is that allows you to get directly working on your website without changing
your DNS right away if you're hosted elsewhere, or if you haven't purchased a
domain yet, it allows you to easily start experimenting with what you
want your website to look like. So what we're gonna do is we're going to refresh
now just to see if the application has been successfully installed. You shouldn't
need to reset the application. It still says it needs about a minute. So while we
wait, it looks like our Cloudflare is active for our domain, which is great.
We're gonna go ahead and close out Google Domains now and we are now going
to recheck. It looks like our application was successfully installed. So we're
gonna go down our application list and see Nashville Unbound. It's in my
personal site server and it was created on 20 April 2020. You're gonna click on
this application now. As you can see it did auto generate itself a URL. What
we're going to do is we're going to update this using the domain management
tool. You're gonna come over to domain management and then you're gonna choose
the domain that you want. So as you can see, I'm gonna add Nashville Unbound as
the chosen primary domain name. If you want it to be www, this is where you add
the prefix. So you need to add www.nashvileunbound.com if you're looking to
have that prefix. Since I prefer the URL to be what's known as naked without the
www subdomain we're gonna go ahead and just save it. So while this is happening,
what's going on in the background is it's going through and it's trying to
set the domain to be instead of that Cloudways URL to be Nashville Unbound.
It's going to be updating the database and it's going to be making sure that it
can resolve to it. So what we're going to do is now we're gonna click on the
access details. It says my application domain has been updated and it's showing
in the application URL. So if I click over here we're just going
to validate that it is indeed working. If you get redirected to another website on
your account that does happen sometimes. What you need to do is come over to the
varnish section and simply you can disable it for now or you can go to your
server settings and go to manage services and then go to varnish and
click purge. And now we'll go ahead and we'll give it another shot and now it's
resolved in nashvilleunbound.com. If you want to install an SSL certificate
you are able to do so now at this step. All you need to do is and provide your
email address as I'll be providing my work address right here and then we're
gonna be adding the application name. An application domain name. If you're
installing subdomains and you want a wildcard SSL you can do so here. We're
just going to be installing a regular SSL certificate for the root of the
domain. We're gonna go ahead and click install now it because the website is
automatically going to be redirecting from the www version, we're not going to
worry about adding the additional domain for it. And we're gonna wait while the
Let's Encrypt SSL installs, which can take just about a normally about a
minute, assuming that your DNS is resolving correctly. And then once it is,
it's going to prompt you to do an HTTPS redirection. What this says is a
server-side redirect that forces the application to be accessed via HTTPS
instead of HTTP. All you need to click is the enable HTTPS option. Once it's done
it's gonna give you a little bit minute and then you should be able to go to the
website directly. If you access nashvilleunbound.com or whatever your
own URL is you'll see that it's now over HTTPS
There is no broken padlock because it is forcing all URLs to be served and you
can now begin building your website. If you have any questions feel free
to ask in the comments below otherwise thank you so much for watching and
goodbye.