Digital Foundations: Install Wordpress on Debian Squeeze

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Install services:

apt-get install mysql-server

apt-get install wordpress

(deps: apache2, php5)

Create link if installing in a sub-directory:

ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/wordpress

Run the Wordpress MySQL setup script:

/usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples/setup-mysql -n wordpress

Create link to access the correct URL if you used localhost above:

ln -s /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php /etc/wordpress/config-myUri.php

Run the Wordpress install.php:

http:///wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

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