Namecheap.com offers shared hosting. They give you a cpanel just like godaddy and others
Once you figure out how to SSH (this is not enabled by default and you have to use the online chat, provide usernames and passwords to them and they will enable it). It will take 10 minutes before it SSH will work once they enable it.
You then need to add your public key to them so you can SSH
Now you need to install WP-CLI. Here’s how.
SSH into their server, something like:
- you can find the server name by looking at your URL once you are logged into the cpanel
- don’t forget the port number (-p21098) for shared host
$ ssh codegod@server333.web-hosting.com -p21098
Bam! You’re into their box.
Browse to your home directory
Should be something like
/home/codegod
Install WP-CLI
Create a wp folder and cd into it
$ mkdir wp
$ cd wp
Download WP-CLI
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
Go back to your home directory (where you just were) by using:
$ cd ../
Add aliases to .bashrc
If you don’t see it look for it using
$ ls -la
Open .bashrc in vim
$ vi .bashrc
Make .bashrc look similar to this (I added the 2 aliases)
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# User specific aliases and functions
alias php='php -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar'
alias wp='php ~/wp/wp-cli.phar'
Close and save .bashrc using :wq!
- write(
w), quit(q), force(!)
Refresh .bashrc
$ source .bashrc
Test if WP-CLI works with wp shortcut
$ wp
If you get something similar to the following, your WP-CLI was successful:
prompt$ wp --info
(and you should get something like this:)
PHP binary: /usr/selector/php-cli
PHP version: 5.4.35
php.ini used: /usr/local/lib/php.ini
WP-CLI root dir: phar://wp-cli.phar
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config:
WP-CLI version: 0.17.1
Add WP-CLI tab completions
Go back into the wp folder you created earlier and download this repo from github.com
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/master/utils/wp-completion.bash
Then in your home directory add this to your .bash_profile
# .bash_profile
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# Bash completions for wp-cli. (You can not use the ~/ shortcut for $HOME)
source /home/codegod/wp/wp-completion.bash
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
- I just added the line above beginning with
source - save with
:wq! - refresh with
$ source .bash_profile
And that’s it. You will have WP-CLI and tab completing installed and working.
Test to make sure
Navigate to a folder you want to install WordPress on your remote namecheap shared hosting server.
Create the folder.
$ mkdir some-wordpress-project
cd into that folder
$ cd some-wordpress-project
Install core WordPress into that project
$ wp core download
If it works, you did it. Congrats!