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Install WordPress 2.8.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Date: Oct. 20, 2009 | Tags: ubuntu, wordpress | 4 Comments

Since we're using WordPress at work, I decided to install WordPress on my local machine for testing and educational purposes. Here are my notes. The versions of stuff are: WordPress 2.8.4, Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, MySQL 5.1, PHP 5.2.6, Apache 2.2.11 with prefork mpm.

Install prerequisites

Install Apache and PHP

sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Install MySQL Server
```
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
```
Set a password for the MySQL root user when prompted.

Download Wordpress code

cd /var/www
sudo wget http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.4.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf wordpress-2.8.4.tar.gz

Create MySQL database and user

mysql -uroot -p

Enter the password you created above.

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wp_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wp_user'@'localhost';
\q

Edit WordPress wp-config.php file

Copy the sample file

cd /var/www/wordpress
sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Edit the following lines in /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'wp_user');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wp_password');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Set up Apache virtual host

Edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress

ServerName localhost
<VirtualHost *:80>
	DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress
	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/wordpress.error.log
</VirtualHost>

Symlink to sites-enabled

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/wordpress

Remove default virtual host from sites-enabled

sudo rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

Restart Apache and view your Wordpress site

```
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
```
Go to http://localhost in your browser. You should get the WordPress Welcome page.

References

4 Comments — Comments feed for this post

#1 Manuel Jose commented on 2009-11-17:

I got this error while restarting apache

Syntax error on line 161 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

any ideas? Thanks in advance :-)

#2 Nikolay Kolev commented on 2010-05-17:

I recommend the following improvements:

Install LAMP via sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
Do not delete the default website in apache, just do the following: sudo a2dissite default
There's no need to create the wp-config.php file as WordPress will create it automatically
The latest WordPress can be downloaded from http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Also, I recommend adding Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks so that people cannot sniff what plugins you have installed, etc
Symlink to sites-enabled should be done via sudo a2ensite wordpress

#3 Nikolay Kolev commented on 2010-05-17:

One more thing, once you set up WordPress, you should go to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ to generate unique secret keys, then, update your wp-config.php with those generated values.

#4 Eliot commented on 2010-05-17:

Nikolay, I didn't know about a2dissite and a2ensite. I will use those from now on. Thanks for all the tips. You definitely know WordPress better than I do.

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