Yes. WordPress requires access to a MySQL or MariaDB database to store information. So you’ll need a database.
You should create a new database if:
It is not essential to create a new database for each WordPress installation.
If you want to change the language that WordPress is using, you can select your preferred language in the Administration Screen. To do this you can go the Settings > General, and choose your preferred language from the Site Language dropdown menu.
If you have not already installed WordPress, you can rename the folder with the WordPress files, before, or even after uploading the files.
f you have WordPress installed already, and you want to rename the folder, login to your website as an administrator and change the following settings in Settings > General:
Once you have done this, you can rename the directory or folder with the WordPress files in it.
When you specified the upload path, you used backslashes. Use forward slashes “/” to specify the path to the directory.
As long as you have PHP installed you shouldn’t have any trouble getting started with WordPress. Both Apache and Microsoft IIS are capable of serving your WordPress website.
Whether you are testing a new version of WordPress, setting up a new blog or have some other reason to limit access, the following information may help you keep unwanted visitors out.
There is no guaranteed way to do this. You can use the .htaccess file (which also contains your permalink code) to check for certain IP addresses and prevent them from viewing your site. This will only stop the IP address, not the person, so if they have access to an allowed IP address, they can get to your page. One tutorial for this is located at Clockwatchers.com
A .htaccess file can also be used to prevent others from “hot-linking” to your images (bandwidth theft) or to set up a password-protected blog.
To require a password to access your site using .htaccess and .htpasswd.
Tools that help you create the files necessary to password protect your site: Htpasswd generator, htaccess Tools and Clockwatchers.com .htaccess And .htpasswd Tools
Note: When your site is accessed the password is encoded weakly using Base64 and can be easily intercepted and decoded.
Search Engines will index your site and cache your content. If you do not want this to happen, you can go to the Settings > Reading from Administration Screen, and Click Check the ‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ box to ask search engines not to index this site.
Note: It is up to search engines to honor your request.
You may use a file called robots.txt. More details can be found at Affilorama.com and elsewhere on the web.
In some setups, it’s necessary to use something other than the HTTP_HOST header to generate URLs. Reverse proxies take the original request and send it to one of a group of servers. To do so, it overwrites the HTTP_HOST with the internal server’s domain. When that domain is not publicly accessible, at best your images might not load correctly, at worst, you’ll be stuck in a redirect loop. To fix this, figure out which header has the right domain name and add a line to your wp-config.php file that overwrites HTTP_HOST with the correct hostname.
If you need to use SERVER_NAME, add this line to wp-config.php:
<?php $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; ?>
If you need to use HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST, add this line to wp-config.php:
<?php $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST']; ?>