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Standard weekend tickets go on sale: Sunday October 5 (9am)

Full ticket price: £220 + £5 booking fee + £50 deposit

Tickets will be sold exclusively here

1) Register, register, register

If you don't register, you are not eligible to buy a ticket, so this first step is crucial. The deadline for registration closes at 23:59 tonight (Tuesday September 30).

Make sure you upload a clear photograph of yourself, as applications will be rejected if your photograph is any of the following: landscape, blurry, too dark, busy background, obstructed, too distant or uncropped. A passport style image is perfect. You will also be asked for some personal details.

If your registration is accepted (note: registration does not guarantee a ticket), you will be sent a unique registration number. In order to buy tickets, you will need this registration number, your name and your postcode.

To register, click here.

2) Be prepared

Make sure you and all of your friends share registration details with each other. If one of you gets through to the buying stage, you can purchase up to six tickets if you have access to the registration codes and personal details of the people you are buying for. Be prepared – tickets are not held while you enter your details and you do not want either to lose your tickets trying to find crucial information or for the webpage to time out before you have bought your tickets.

3) Stick to one internet tab

It is tempting to open numerous tabs and frantically refresh them all but you are better off focussing on one tab, so you can concentrate on entering your details without confusing your browser. The official Glastonbury ticket site says: "Access to the booking page is limited to 10 minutes from the point you enter your registration details, so if you have lots of tabs refreshing the same page, the clock will start as soon as the first one of those tabs hits the site, which may have been a window you weren't keeping an eye on."

3) Be patient

Plenty of people will give up if they are not immediately successful. It pays to stick around – tickets are still sold long after the initial rush.

4) Look at all options

A coach trip to and from Worthy Farm probably will be as miserable as it sounds but you have to weigh up how much you want to experience Glastonbury. Try and buy one of the coach and ticket packages on Wednesday October 1 and if you fail, you have another chance on Sunday October 5. You know it makes sense, however grim it sounds.

5) Don't forget the re-sale

If you are one of the unlucky ones who doesn't get a ticket, don't give up hope. There is a re-sale of cancelled tickets in early 2015 and only registered users are eligible.

6) Buying a ticket is not the only way

There are plenty of other ways to gain access to the site, the most obvious of which is to work. There are numerous charities which offer free admission to the festival in return for eight hours work a day. It sounds a lot but no one sleeps at Glastonbury so it leaves you 16 hours to enjoy the music.

Popular options include:

oxfam.org.uk/stewards

festaff.co.uk

Recyclers/Litter pickers are recruited by the Festival. To apply for this, contact Fiona direct on 01749 899086 or email fiona@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

If you have medical, paramedic or first aid qualifications, you can apply to join Dr Chris Howes's team of volunteers by completing the application form.