WordPress/Installation
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Revision as of 15:50, 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 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Download Wordpress
download the latest version from their latest version URL
~$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz