Definitions:
- Wordpress
- WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing
platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and
usability. Uses PHP and MySQL. Licenced under the GPL.- MySQL
- The MySQL database server is the world’s most popular open
source database. It is released under the GPL.
In a properly configured Fedora/Redhat system you can install MySQL with yum. You’ll need atleast the following packages: mysql-server, mysql, and php-mysql, as well as php and httpd. Assuming that your web server is already set up and working with php.
$ sudo yum install mysql-server mysql php-mysql
(Restart httpd after installing php-mysql.) With a fresh install of mysql, you’ll need to start the server daemon and set things up.
$ sudo /sbin/service httpd restart $ sudo /sbin/service mysqld start $ sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 mysqld on
The mysql “root” password is initially blank, so don’t worry and hit return if it prompts you:
$ mysqladmin -u root -p password 'pick_a_good_password'
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON wordpress.*
TO wordpress_user@localhost
IDENTIFIED BY 'pick_another_good_password';
Now you are set. Write down that info:
WORDPRESS INFO:
Database Name : wordpress
User Name : wordpress_user
Password : pick_another_good_password
Database Host : localhost
Table Prefix : wp1_
Now, download the latest version from: http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz . Then as a user with write access to /var/www/html, do:
$ cd /var/www/html $ wget -nv http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz $ tar xzf latest.tar.gz
Then it should be as simple as pointing your browser to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php snd going from there.
UPDATE: 2004-08-27 How I installed Wordpress on halcanary.org.
Since I already had a MySQL database set up, I just had to choose a uniqe prefix. Movable Type tables use the prefix mt_. So I set my Wordpress prefix to wp1_. Here are the tables used by both programs, according to phpMyAdmin:
mt_author wp1_categories mt_blog wp1_comments mt_category wp1_linkcategories mt_comment wp1_links mt_entry wp1_optiongroup_options mt_ipbanlist wp1_optiongroups mt_log wp1_options mt_notification wp1_optiontypes mt_permission wp1_optionvalues mt_placement wp1_post2cat mt_plugindata wp1_postmeta mt_tbping wp1_posts mt_template wp1_users mt_templatemap mt_trackback
I’m getting ahead of myself. Before I got that far, I unpacked the wordpress tarball locally, used a gui ftp program to recursivly copy over the directory. I renamed ~/public_html/wordpress/ to ~/public_html/wp/ for brevity’s sake. I then had to change the permission mode on that directory to 777 so that the install program could make the wp-config.php file. Then I made a ~/public_html/b/ directory and copied index.php from the wp/ directory there. This way my permlinks will be to http://halcanary.org/b/, and not to http://halcanary.org/wp/.
Then I browsed to http://halcanary/wp/ and did the setup.