2026年11月12日

How to Install WordPress on Lolipop: Quick Install and Manual Setup

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This article is a localized edition of the Japanese original. Read the Japanese original

There are three main ways to use WordPress on Lolipop! Rental Server (Lolipop below), a Japanese shared hosting service.

Method	When it fits
Install at sign-up	You're about to sign up for Lolipop. If you choose WordPress and a theme on the sign-up screen, WordPress is set up along with the contract
WordPress quick install	You want to add a new WordPress site to an existing account. This covers most cases
Manual installation	You want to supply the WordPress files yourself or understand how the installation works

This article covers the "WordPress quick install" feature for existing accounts and manual installation. The screen items follow Lolipop's official manual and are as of November 2026. Lolipop's control panel is in Japanese; the labels below are English descriptions of them.

Check before you start

Plan. WordPress (that is, databases) is available on the Light, Standard, High Speed and Enterprise plans. It isn't available on the Economy plan.
Whether new sign-ups are accepted. Since October 24, 2026, Lolipop has suspended new sign-ups (including free trials) as a precaution (confirmed in the official announcement on November 10, 2026). Existing accounts are said to keep working as before, including displaying sites and installing WordPress. If you're about to sign up, check the announcements on the official site to see whether sign-ups have resumed.
Where to install. If you want to publish on your own domain, add the domain first under the custom domain settings in the user control panel. It then becomes selectable as an install destination.

Method 1: WordPress quick install

Step 1: Open the input screen

Step 2: Enter the destination and WordPress settings

Fill in the following items and click the button to confirm your input.

Item	What to enter
Site URL	The domain and directory to install WordPress in. If you have several custom domains, choose the domain as well
Database to use	Choose "create new automatically" and a database name and password made of random letters and numbers are created
Site title	The name of the site. You can change it later in the admin area
Username	The username for logging in to the admin area. "admin," "Admin," "administrator," "root" and "test" can't be used
Password	The admin password. Combine letters, numbers and symbols so it's hard to guess
Email address	The administrator's email address. It's used for things like password resets
LiteSpeed Cache setting	Leave it checked and you start with the LiteSpeed Cache caching plugin enabled
WordPress theme	Choose the theme to start with

Lolipop's manual recommends a username and password of at least 8 random letters and numbers. Avoid dictionary words, strings that match your domain name, and passwords you use on other sites.

Step 3: Confirm and install

Check the details on the confirmation screen, tick the box to accept, and click "Install." Files with the same names in the destination directory are overwritten, so be careful not to choose a directory that already holds a site.

Step 4: Log in

Click the admin page URL on the completion screen to open the login screen. Log in with the username and password you set in Step 2. It's handy to bookmark the login screen URL.

Things to know after a quick install

An index.html file hides WordPress. If there's an index.html in the install directory, opening the site URL shows index.html instead of WordPress. Rename or delete it.
wp-config.php is read-only. The permissions of the wp-config.php created by the quick install are set to 400 to protect against tampering. To edit it, change the permissions temporarily, then set them back to 400 afterward.

Method 2: Install manually

With this method you upload the files yourself. The example puts WordPress at https://(your Lolipop domain)/wordpress/.

Step 1: Create a database

Open "Database" in the user control panel and create a database.

Server to create it on: Any of them is fine.
Database name: Any name you like.
Connection password: Enter a password of your choice and note it down.

After creation, the "server," "database name," "username" and "password" are shown. You'll use all four when installing WordPress.

Step 2: Download and extract WordPress

Download the latest zip file from the Japanese WordPress download page and extract it on your computer. Extracting it creates a wordpress folder.

Step 3: Upload with FTP

Connect to the Lolipop server with an FTP client, using PASV (passive) mode. Create a wordpress folder on the server and upload all the extracted files and folders into it. There are many files, so the upload takes a while.

Step 4: Finish the installation in your browser

Open https://(your Lolipop domain)/wordpress/ in your browser and proceed to create the configuration file (wp-config.php). Enter the database details as follows.

WordPress field	Value to enter
Database Name	The "database name" from Step 1
Username	The "username" from Step 1
Password	The connection password you chose in Step 1
Database Host	The "server" from Step 1 (not `localhost`)
Table Prefix	Leave it as `wp_`

Then click "Run the installation," enter the site title, username, password and email address, and install. When you see "Success!", go to the admin area with "Log In."

Step 5: Change permissions

Lolipop's manual says to change the permissions of the following files after a manual installation. Set them with your FTP client's permission (attribute) change feature.

File	Permissions
`wp-config.php`	`400`
`wp-admin/install.php`	`000`

Show the site on your own domain

If you're going to publish on your own domain from the start, the least effort is to add the custom domain to Lolipop first, then choose that domain in the WordPress quick install.

If WordPress was installed at sign-up on the Lolipop domain (such as https://(your Lolipop domain)/wordpress/) and you later switch to your own domain, Lolipop's manual describes this flow:

Take a backup first and deactivate all plugins.
Add the custom domain in the custom domain settings of the user control panel and set its public (upload) folder to the folder WordPress is in (wordpress in this example). Enable the free SSL for your own domain too.
In the WordPress admin area, go to "Settings" → "General," change "WordPress Address (URL)" and "Site Address (URL)" to https://your-domain, and save. After saving, you can no longer log in on the old domain.
Confirm that you can log in at https://your-domain/wp-admin/, then reactivate the plugins you deactivated.
In "Settings" → "Permalinks," save a different setting once, then save your original setting again.

These steps are for WordPress installed at sign-up. According to the manual, the steps differ for WordPress installed with the quick install feature and for moving from one custom domain to another. In those cases, check the relevant steps in Lolipop's manual. The manual also says to keep the PHP version the same before and after the change.

Common stumbling points

Symptom	What to check
Opening the site URL shows a page that isn't WordPress	Whether an `index.html` is left in the install directory
"Error establishing a database connection" (manual install)	Whether you entered the "server" value from the database creation screen as the database host, and whether the password is correct
The quick install won't accept your username	Whether you entered a name that isn't allowed, such as "admin," "root" or "test"
You can't edit `wp-config.php`	Its permissions are `400`. Change them temporarily and set them back after editing

Summary

With an existing account, you can install WordPress from "WordPress" (the WordPress quick install) in the user control panel just by entering the site URL, database, username and so on.
To install manually, create a database in the user control panel, upload the files by FTP, and enter the "server" value as the database host.
After installing, watch the wp-config.php permissions (400) and any index.html left in the directory.
As of November 10, 2026, Lolipop has suspended new sign-ups. If you're about to sign up, check the official announcements.

For the steps on another hosting service, also see How to install WordPress on ConoHa WING.

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