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Installing WordPress on Ubuntu Gutsy. You already need to have Mysql, Apache and PHP install (see here)

Change to you www directory

cd /var/www

and get and extract the latest WordPress gz

sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar xvfz latest.tar.gz

Now we need to create a database for wordpress

mysql -u root -p

Enter the root password you assigned when installing Mysql

Create the database

mysql> create database wp;

Now assign privileges to mysql user. You can chose your own username and password

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp.* TO "wpuser"@"localhost"
> IDENTIFIED BY "userpassword";
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> exit;

Now we need to create a wp-config.php file and enter the settings above

sudo mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Replace all of the ^M’s on the end of the lines by using the following command. To enter the ^M you need to type "CTRL-V CTRL-M" NOT BY TYPING "CARROT M"

sudo sed 's/^M//g' -i wp-config.php

Now repalce the default settings with the ones you entered above. You can use vi or similar if you prefer.

sudo sed 's/putyourdbnamehere/wp/g' -i wp-config.php
sudo sed 's/usernamehere/wpuser/g' -i wp-config.php
sudo sed 's/yourpasswordhere/wpuserpassword/g' -i wp-config.php

Now to setup Apache. I don’t want the default configuration file - I’ll only be running my WordPress site on this server

cd /etc/apache2

Set the server name - obviously change it to your own

sudo echo ServerName sysadminman.net >> apache2.conf
cd sites-available

You may want to change some configuration below. Especially the email address.

sudo -s
cat >> wordpress << EOF
NameVirtualHost *

ServerAdmin admin@sys.net
ServerName sysadminman.net
ServerAlias www.sysadminman.net sysadminman.com www.sysadminman.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress

Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature Off
EOF
exit
cd ../sites-enabled/
sudo rm 000-default
sudo ln -s ../sites-available/wordpress wordpress

Start up Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

point your web browser at your homepage and (hopefully!) follow the instructions to setup WordPress

This post is part of a 4 part series that goes from getting a vps, securing it, installing LAMP and installing WordPress.The 4 parts are -

Setting up a vps with cheapvps.co.uk [part1]

Securing my Ubuntu VPS [part2]

Installing Mysql and Apache [part3]

My VPS was from cheapvps.co.uk and was running under XEN.

The configuration is 256Mb memory & 10Gb disk space for $18 a month.

The vps was provisioned with Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn but I upgraded that to the latest version - Gutsy Gibbon

Related posts:

1. Installing Mysql and Apache [part3]
2. Monitoring a VPS with munin
3. Securing my Ubuntu VPS [part2]