SSH Is Confusing as Hell?
 

No "Google Its" either please...

I cannot figure out how to use this SSH stuff... I found on wordpress you can actually get the files for wordpress right onto your server or whatever by using SSH, but it says this:

If you have shell access to your web server, and are comfortable using console-based tools, you may wish to download WordPress directly to your web server using wget (or lynx or another console-based web browser) if you want to avoid FTPing:
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Then unzip the package using:
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

The WordPress package will extract into a folder called wordpress in the same directory that you downloaded latest.tar.gz.

I've got shell access ( I think, I can connect using all the keys and stuff I had to get) but where do I go from here?

If you don't know what you're doing, you should probably leave the shell alone. No, you should DEFINITELY leave it alone.

That's sorta like shooting myself in the foot... Trying to be self sufficient here and learn what Ineed to know so I can help others as well and I thought maybe someone here owuld know. Well... it's not exactly 'maybe', I KNOW someone here knows, its just a matter of them seeing this thread and maybe offering a pointer or two. hanks for the suggestion though, but I can't have my hands and feet tied together. Nothing ever comes good of that.

You say you want to be self sufficient but you can't be bothered to google?:1orglaugh
Which part are you having trouble with?
wget
tar command

You can install wordpress without SSH. There is absolutely no reason to use SSH to install it. In fact, you can do almost anything a webmaster needs to do without ever touching the shell.

Oh, and if you insist on installing WP via SSH then you can, in fact, Google it. Here you go Mr. Self-sufficient, I even took the time to Google it for you.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=install+wordpress+via+ssh

I'll try and help you out a bit here

cd = change directory
ls = list directory (equivalent to dir in dos)
pwd = shows you where you are in your file system
cd .. = move up a directory
cd / = move to root directory
cp = copy file/directory
mv = move file/directory
rm = remove file
mkdir = make a directory

nano = like edit in dos only to save it's ctrl+o
pico = if you don't have nano

usually your website is stored in a subfolder in /home/
eg) /home/mysite/www/

so to jump there quick
cd /home/mysite/www/

dunno but i hope this helps a little.

If you're not a sys admin/ programer, linux enthusiast leave SSH alone...

what you are looking for is FTP... unizp the files, upload the folder with the files to your site... you're done

... then just go to wordpress' setup page


if all you want to do is setup wordpress though, your web host probably has a very easy automated setup procedure for it, ask your host

I wouldn't mess with it like that if you don't know what you're doing.

Yo Mr. Self Sufficient,

you have to type these things in at the shell prompt.
don't forget to hit enter at the end of each line

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

If you think ssh is difficult, you have a long rocky road ahead to become "self sufficiant" best advice I can give you is, learn to use google. If you have access to a unix/linux/bsd system learn to type "man command" where command is replaced with the command you want to know more about. GOOD LUCK =)

dont forget to recompile apache and php