WordPress/Installation

Revision as of 14:50, 4 October 2014

Installation done on a VM running Ubuntu 14.04LTS

Download required packages

On a LAMP setup make sure to download the standard packages

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y apache2 mysql-server php5-mysql php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt 

If you already have LAMP installed, all WordPress needs is

~$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y php5-gd libssh2-php

Configure MySQL

login to db

~$ mysql -u root -p

Create mysql wordpress user

~$ mysql> CREATE USER 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'THISpasswordSHOULDbeCHANGED';
~$ mysql> exit

login as new user to verify account works

~$ mysql -u wordpress -p
~$ mysql> exit

create DB

~$ mysql -u root -p
~$ mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

verify DB creation

~$ mysql> SHOW DATABASES;

assign rights to wiki user for new database created

~$ mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'phpBBuserpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;  
~$ mysql> exit

verify permissions have been granted

~$ mysql -u wordpress -p
~$ mysql> SHOW GRANTS;
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for wordpress@localhost                                                                                   |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `wordpress`.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION                               |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Download Wordpress

download the latest version from their latest version URL

~$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz