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Test Web Server Documentation (view source)
Revision as of 16:57, 16 March 2016
, 16:57, 16 March 2016→Installing WordPress (3/14/2016): more detailed installation instructions
$ tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
Configure a database for WordPress (can be called something other than wordpress) and make a new MySQL user (can be called something other than mcnair_wp) that has all permissions for the wordpress database. Obviously, you should replace password a_secure_password with a secure an actual password for the user(but leave the quotes around the password when typing the MySQL command). FLUSH PRIVILEGES reloads the permissions tables.
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> EXIT
Make a wp-config.php by making a copy of the wp-config-sample.php file and renaming it:
$ cp ~/Downloads/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php ~/Downloads/wordpress/wp-config.php
$ sudo vi ~/Downloads/wordpress/wp-config.php
Edit the lines that define the DB_NAME, DB_USER, and DB_PASSWORD constants to have the values that you used to set up the MySQL database and user above.
I installed the wordpress directory under /var/lib/wordpress and then made a symlink from /var/www/blog to /var/lib/wordpress (much like how the mediawiki was done) so that http://128.42.44.22/blog points to the WP blog.
== To-do list ==
