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   chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/
   chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/wordpress


Make symlinks to WordPress
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  ln -s /usr/share/webapps/wordpress/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress
  ln -s /usr/share/webapps/wordpress/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress


== Starting ==
== Config and start MySql ==
'''Starting http and sql server and adding to boot'''
 
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start && rc-update add lighttpd default
== Config MySql ==


  /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
  /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql
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  CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
  CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO "root";
  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress password';
  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  EXIT
  EXIT
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   Database Name: wordpress
   Database Name: wordpress
   User Name: root
   User Name: wordpress
   Password: the MySQL password
   Password: <wordpress password>
   Database Host: localhost
   Database Host: localhost
   Table Prefix: wp_
   Table Prefix: wp_

Revision as of 09:03, 9 June 2011

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

... include "mod_fastcgi.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

... "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi ...

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!