Category: WordPress

WordPress Development Sites

March 30, 2012

Had a conversation with a client yesterday about how best to develop a new WordPress stie before the domain name was pointing to the server. This might be the case if you’re building a new site while the domain is still pointing to the old site. If the new site has to be publicly available then the only real solution is to develop on a subdomain or alternate domain. So in Plesk or CPanel create the target domain like “acme.com”. Then create an alias domain like “dev.acme.com” or “acme.greatdesigns.com”. Now you’ll install wordpress and do the development on the alias domain. When you’re ready to go live you can point the final name in DNS to the new server. But there’s are several possible issues that you’ll see when you go live: WordPress stores the domain name of the site at installation in the wp_options table under the “home” and “siteurl”

Install WordPress on Ubuntu virtual server at Media Temple

May 25, 2011

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