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Hi,

Is it possible to install WordPress on Bubba?

http://wordpress.org/

/Johnny

Hi Johnny,

When looking at the requirements page of wordpress it sure looks like Bubba would be able to run it. You would have to install MySQL yourself, but other than that there should be no problems. That said we can of course not give any gurarantees since we have not tried it ourselfs yet.

/Tor

Hi Tor,

I have installed TorrentFlux which was kindly described by bjorn in his HowTo. I'm sure that involved some kind of MySQL installation. Do I need to install another MySQL or is it possible to use that version?

/Johnny

No the MySQL installed when setting up TorrentFlux will be fine.

You should not have to install another. You might however have to install php4-mysql package if that wheren't part of the TorrentFlux install. But apart from that you should have everything to install WordPress.

Please let us know how it goes

/Tor

I was thinking, it would be nice to collect a list of all programs/libraries that we were able to run. Maybe with attached howtos and the like. It would be useful as a quick reference..

tor wrote:No the MySQL installed when setting up TorrentFlux will be fine.

You should not have to install another. You might however have to install php4-mysql package if that wheren't part of the TorrentFlux install. But apart from that you should have everything to install WordPress.

Please let us know how it goes

/Tor

I'm not a unix-guru....but perhaps I give it a try. If so I'll let you know

Hi Johnny

I installed Wordpress. As Tor says, you install MySQL & php4-mysql. Copy the Wordpress tar.gz file to /var/www/html and gunzip it. Add a user to MySQL for Wordpress and create a Wordpress database. Edit wp-config-sample.php:

define('DB_NAME', 'yourdatabasename');
define('DB_USER', 'yourusername');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'youruserpassword');

then rename the file to wp-config.php and place it in the Wordpress directory.

dougie

Hi Johnny

Wordpress have just issued a security warning on version 2.1.1:
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/

This will probably be the version you have if you downloaded it recently. Some cracker gained access to the Wordpress server and altered the download file. Wordpress recommend upgrading to version 2.1.2 immediately.

dougie

Hi dougie!

Thanks for helping out here. I haven't had time to install WordPress yet, perhaps that was not so bad after your info on the security warning

/Johnny

Hi!

I managed to get wordpress running. Really no problem.

I did (as root):
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php4-mysql
before this you need to uncomment all lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and do apt-get update

Then navigate to the root web folder (i have set up many domains, but default would be /var/www/html)

then
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
and
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

And then I basically followed the instructions here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_W ... _You_Begin

Restart apache2 (/etc/init.d apache2 -k restart)

This worked for me, but I have really no idea how or why

Someone who understands this could probably write a howto with all the steps, cause there are not many!

/pelle

If you're using Firefox, try the ScribeFire add-in. It lets you post straight to Wordpress on your Bubba from a frame.