WordPress
Set up WordPress on Alpine Linux
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog.
This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup WordPress on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:
- Lighttpd with PHP
- MySql
- WordPress
Install lighttpd, PHP, and MySql
Basic Installation
For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index
Install the required packages:
# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi
Configure Lighttpd
Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:
Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.
Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf
Start lighttpd
service and add it to default runlevel
# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default
Install extra packages:
apk add php-mysql mysql mysql-client
Installing and configuring WordPress
Install WordPress
Make webapps folder
mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p
Download
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Unpack
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz rm latest.tar.gz
Change Folder Persmissions
chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/wordpress
Make symlinks to WordPress
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/wordpress/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress
Config and start MySql
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'
Create the WordPress database
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE wordpress; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT
Config your WordPress
Browse
http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/WordPress/
click on: "Create a Configuration File" click on: "Let’s go!"
Database Name: wordpress User Name: wordpress Password: <wordpress password> Database Host: localhost Table Prefix: wp_
You may need create the wp-config.php manually, so modify define the 'DB_NAME', DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD, then copy and paste the text into it. After you've done that, click "Run the install."
Enter Information needed
Site Title Username Password, twice Your E-mail
After you've done that, click "Install WordPress"
You have WordPress working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/wordpress and enjoy!