Setting up WordPress on Ubuntu
I just did several projects that required a wordpress install. The setup I used was Ubuntu (ami-5059be39) on EC2, apache and mysql obviously ;). Here is a script I used to prep the system and install necessary libraries
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install git-core sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 mysql server sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Download WordPress and extract to a directory. I used /home/ubuntu/projectname.
Then sym link this directory to /var/www/projectname. When you are done, edit apache conf file, which is located at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/projectname, to point to the deploy directory:
DocumentRoot /var/www/<strong>projectname
You can use the 000-default file if you want, but I usually rename it to the project name I’m working on to avoid confusion (or if you have more than one subdomain or website running on the same machine).
Last step, restart apache:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache 2 restart
Good luck.
Edit (3/3/2011): updated code formatting.
Nice Post, btw do you know any good usenet archives and or mailing list archives site for unix / linux / bsd
Thanks. Check out this page for a list of specific groups: http://www.linux.org/docs/usenetlinux.html
For a bsd linux I hear news:linux.apps.bbsdev is pretty good.