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Here’s the fully enumerated steps undertaken to install WordPress.

Preparation

1. MySQL
   1. Via webmin, added myself as a user
   2. Created the database ‘wordpress’
2. PHP
   1. Had to create the /usr/local/etc/php.ini file (using php.ini-recommended as the basis)
3. Apache (all are in reference to /usr/local/etc/apache/httpsd.conf)
   1. Added the ‘DirectoryIndex’ directive, which for some reason wasn’t present
      DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

   2. Ensured the following lines were present:
      

      AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html
      AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

   3. [Though I had actually done this after the actual install, this could just as easily have been done at this point] Turned mod_rewrite on for vhost:
      RewriteEngine On

Installation

1. Downloaded latest release, 1.2.
2. scp’d file to server. unzipped in root dir of the site. mv’d all the files up a directory since they unpacked into the “wordpress” subdir.
3. Modified wp-config-sample.php by giving it my mySQL username, password, db name, and db table prefix and renamed it to wp-config.php.
4. Logged in to This entry was posted on Saturday, June 19th, 2004 at 3:01 PM and is filed under Installation/configuration, User, WordPress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.