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—Things to do prior to the WordPress installation
If you haven’t always done so then get Firefox and install it. There are some useful Firefox add-ons that you should install to make life easier when you are fine tuning your blog:
When you are deciding on a web hoster to host your website it would be a good idea to ask them some questions before signing up. The sort of things you might want to know are:
- Can you view their phpinfo page? Some web hosting services may disable some PHP functions for security reasons. In particular check to see if function fopen() and proc_open() are disabled.
- What facilities will you have for managing files on your site? Will you have access to a web based tool like CPanel or will you have to rely solely on FTP access to your directories?
- Will you have Telnet or SSH access?
- Can you access a terminal for your website and, for example, unzip uploaded gzipped files?
- What Apache directives can you use in your .htaccess files?
