WordPress is an open source blog publishing system written in PHP with a MySQL database.
Installing WordPress
Download and the latest release of WordPress.
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Extracting the file will create a new directory wordpress, move all the files into the a web server’s public HTML directory.
$ tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz
$ mv wordpress/* /var/www/wordpress
Create a MySQL database and user for WordPress
mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Create a wp-config.php file and modify it to specific your WordPress settings.
$ cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
$ nano wp-config.php
define('DB_NAME', 'putyourdbnamehere');
define('DB_USER', 'usernamehere');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordhere');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
The database character set, normally should not be changed.
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
The database collation should normally be left blank.
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
In version 2.5 WordPress introduced a new optional entry called SECRET_KEY, which enables better encryption of information stored in the user’s cookies.
define('SECRET_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
It’s recommend to change the value of the SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase. To help generate a unique phrase visit the WordPress secret key generation site. For more information on the SECRET_KEY refer to the Editing wp-config.php page.
Run the install script by pointing your browser to the URL of your website (e.g http://www.vincentkong.com).
After the installation has been successful, it’s recommend that you immediately login and change the randomly generated password.
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