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In Step 2: Drafting an installation plan, you would have noted down the Web address (URI) you want your first blog to have. This first blog is the one you’ll be using to perform your first WP installation with this tutorial, and also to get familiar with the way WordPress blogs are managed and used.

Your sample test blog can be anywhere you like on the virtual Web server pair.com provides for your account. For the sake of this exercise, I will make references to the test blog I set up to test this tutorial, and leave it to you to edit as needed the details for your test blog, its URI and location.

OK, so let’s say I want to set up my test blog so that its Web address (URI) is:

The corresponding path on our pair.com’s Web server would then be:

In order to install WordPress at the http://www.soapboxcorner.info/martad7/ address, the .tar.gz file containing WP’s latest version needs to be uploaded to the root directory of Soap Box Corner. The corresponding path on our virtual domain’s Web server is

and its URI is

On pair.com, files can be transferred to the chosen location on the host computer in one of several ways - i.e., through the ACC (File Management >> Upload File), via FTP or SFTP, either using Mac OS X’s Terminal, or with some other utility. You can choose the tool and protocol you feel most comfortable with.

I uploaded the file through FTP transfer using a great FTP utility for Mac, called Transmit. If you are familiar with Transmit, you would probably have your favorites and shortcuts already set up, in which case all you have to do (after logging in into your pair.com’s server) is drag the wordpress-2.1.3.tar.gz to the destination directory on yourserver.pair.com, at /usr/WWW/users/replaceusername/sboxcrnr/.

Alternatively, you can transfer the wordpress-2.1.3.tar.gz file using FTP on Terminal, or using pair.com’s ACC.