May 25, 2011

Install WordPress on Ubuntu virtual server at Media Temple

Server is a MediaTemple “ve” server which is a Parallels Virtuozzo container with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid installed as the operating system.

The first step is to install packages:


apt-get update
apt-get install mysql-server
apt-get install apache2
apt-get install php5
apt-get install php5-mysql

apt-get update

apt-get install mysql-server

apt-get install apache2

apt-get install php5

apt-get install php5-mysql

Now set mysql service to start automatically:


update-rc.d mysql defaults
service mysql start

update-rc.d mysql defaults

service mysql start

Next create a database for wordpress:


mysql -p -u root
create database wordpress;
grant all privileges on wordpress.* to 'wordpress'@'localhost' identified by 'YOURNEWPASS';
flush privileges;
exit;

mysql -p -u root

create database wordpress;

grant all privileges on wordpress.* to 'wordpress'@'localhost' identified by 'YOURNEWPASS';

flush privileges;

exit;

Next we’ll download and install wordpress:


cd /root
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf /root/latest.tar.gz
rsync -avz wordpress/ /var/www/
rm /var/www/index.html
cp /var/www/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wp-config.php

cd /root

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

tar -xvzf /root/latest.tar.gz

rsync -avz wordpress/ /var/www/

rm /var/www/index.html

cp /var/www/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wp-config.php

Now set the database credentials in /var/www/wp-config.php:


replace 'database_name_here' 'wordpress' -- /var/www/wp-config.php
replace 'username_here' 'wordpress' -- /var/www/wp-config.php
replace 'password_here' 'YOURNEWPASS' -- /var/www/wp-config.php

replace 'database_name_here' 'wordpress' -- /var/www/wp-config.php

replace 'username_here' 'wordpress' -- /var/www/wp-config.php

replace 'password_here' 'YOURNEWPASS' -- /var/www/wp-config.php

Finally point your web browser to the site and run the WordPress installer.

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7 Comments

7 Responses

Wp e-commerce says:

July 19, 2011 at 7:34 am

Awesome guide for WordPress. A lot of people will get great information from this post. Great share.

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Gary says:

July 31, 2011 at 8:53 am

our PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.

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hen weekends says:

November 7, 2011 at 6:13 am

I’ve run all my client sites on a single Dream host account for several years now, but recently have been encountering many database issues, and the speed is moderate, but not great.Thanks for sharing the information

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hen weekends says:

November 7, 2011 at 6:13 am

I’ve run all my client sites on a single Dream host account for several years now, but recently have been encountering many database issues, and the speed is moderate, but not great.Thanks for sharing the information

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Virtual Server Hosting says:

December 7, 2011 at 6:33 am

We could have installed WordPress via the same call to apt-get earlier, but I prefer to handle this one manually. Thanks for sharing some few lines of codes for installing WordPress.

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