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1. I love the command line so the first thing I would do is to go open my shell connection, enter the server where I want to intall wordpress like

{Change forder to get to the target directory}

cd public_html

{Download the script}

wget http://mu.wordpress.org/latest.zip

{Uncompress the script}

unzip latest.zip

{Change to the folder generated in my case wordpress-mu-2.6.5}

cd wordpress-mu-2.6.5/

{Move all the contents to the public_html directory}

mv * ../

{Get back to the root directory}

cd ../

{Change permissions for the .htaccess file} –!Important if you don’t do this later on you will regret it , believe me.

chmod 777 .htaccess

Open your browser:
type in your url:

If everything is allright you should see a sort of wellcome message and at the footer you’ll see a warning that will tell you
to apply a quick fix in order to continu with the installation.

quickfix proposed by the system:
chmod 777 /home/bmxforce/public_html /home/bmxforce/public_html/wp-content/


Refresh your page once done

If everything is allright you should now see a form you need to fill in with the data we are gonna get now at your
cpanel admin normally located at http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel

Here you have to find the “mysql” icon , click on it and create:
a) a database
b)an user
c)grant all permissions to user on the newly created db

Go back to your domain and complete the form , hit submit and voila!, by now you should be up and running with your worpress mu.

PS:This small guide assumes you are handy ad the unix/linux/gnu command line.