Wordpress

USING DEBIAN

(all my experiences with v6, squeeze... but should be mostly the same with any Debian based distro)

Assumption: you have a base "LAMP" system installed (Apache2/MySQL/PHP).

PART 1 - Installing and base setup of Wordpress

# apt-get install wordpress (debian has a maintained package)

# chgrp www-data /etc/wordpress/*

# mkdir /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads

# chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress

Note/Disclaimer/Opinion: Argue all you want, security already isn't an issue if you are hosting Wordpress.

PART 2 - Setting up Apache2 so that "blog.yourdomain.net" points to /usr/share/wordpress

# vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/blog.yourdomain.net

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName blog.yourdomain.net

DocumentRoot /var/www/blog.yourdomain.net/

<Directory /var/www/blog.yourdomain.net/>

AllowOverride All

Order Deny,Allow

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

# a2ensite blog.yourdomain.net

# ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/blog.yourdomain.net

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

PART 3 - Using the example script to setup the database and such for Wordpress.

Note: you may have to edit /etc/hosts so the machine resolves blog.yourdomain.net to itself

# vi /etc/hosts

add: 127.0.0.1 blog.yourdomain.com blog

# cd /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples

# bash setup-mysql -n username blog.yourdomain.net

setup-mysql [-n NAME] [-h | -d | -b] FQDN

Creates by default a Wordpress mysql configuration depending on required fully qualified domain name(FQDN).

Options:

-n name for the mysql user and database

-h help

-d destroy and purge

-b backup

Example: You want your blog to be served from http://blog.example.com for user 'wordpress'.

Then run: sudo bash setup-mysql -n wordpress blog.example.com

PART 4 - Now go to blog.yourd0main.com and finish Wordpress install.

Note: you should be able to repeat from Part 2 and host as many different Wordpress sites as you want.

Not sure if you need to enable mod_rewrite, if so: # a2enmod rewrite