How to Configure WordPress at Ubuntu
WordPress is open source software originally designed for blog. Currently, it has developed terrible as blessing thousands of plug-ins that circulated on the Internet.
For bloggers that always connected to the virtual world (internet), now, its no need to purchase expensive any server hosting. Please use the Ubuntu, switch lamp, and tada!
However, before you can enjoy this facility, you must first touched anxious configured in Ubuntu. Here’s how to configure :
1. Run terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install wordpress
2. Create a symbolic link to Apache2 www folder of your installation folder and install the new MySQL database named localhost to use WordPress. Type the following command in terminal:
sudo ln-s / usr / share / wordpress / var / www / wordpress
sudo bash / usr / share / doc / wordpress / examples / setup-mysql-n wordpress localhost
If you already have a host name in WordPress, please do not use localhost but use the host name that you already have. For example, if your blog is a website yourdomian.com, plese type at command:
sudo bash / usr / share / doc / wordpress / examples / setup-mysql-n wordpress yourdomian.com
3. If you access your WordPress server through a virtual host, create a virtual host configuration files in the folder / etc/apache2/sites-available. If so, create a symbolic link from folders / etc/apache2/sites-enabled.
4. Restart apache2 to the commands:
sudo / etc/init.d/apache2 restart
5. Now, install WordPress via a browser. Type the following address into your browser:
http://localhost/wordpress. Or, if you use a virtual host, just type your web site address
Note: WordPress at Ubuntu repositories 9:10 is still using WordPress which contains a bug. Do not forget to update after installation.