Today’s post is all about installing WordPress by using something known as svn. For this, you will need SSH access on your webhost (or your own system will do fine). If your webhost don’t offer, SSH tell them to look at what they are offering again as SSH is a much needed service if you do this crap alot.

As with my other tutorials, $ means something that need to be done in command line, in this case your SSH client (or terminal if doing locally). This tutorial will also install WordPress directly into your root footer for your website.

You will need

• SSH
• SVN
• SSH click (Click here for puTTY for Windows)

Step 1

Open your SSH client and log into your account. Your hostname tends to be your domain.

Step 2

Use the CD command to change to the folder in which your files need to be placed to view over the internet. Typically, public_html

$ cd public_html

Step 3

Now, we just give the command to SVN to download WordPress (this will download WordPress 2.7)

$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7 .

Step 4

Now, we need to rename the config file.

$ mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Step 5

Now, lets edit the config file to add our database to it. Now, most people should use nano as vi tends to be for pure unix geeks (Looks in mirror .

Also, Nano is just simple and doesn’t need many keys just to add one letter.

$nano wp-config.php

Fill in the blanks with your database details. The parts you should be editing are as follow.

define(’DB_NAME’, ‘your_db_name‘);

/** MySQL database username */
define(’DB_USER’, ‘your_db_user_name‘);

/** MySQL database password */
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ‘PassW0rd‘);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost‘);

Step 6

In your web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com. If you are doing it locally, http://localhost.

Step 7

Thats it. Any problems, go to WordPress support forums.

Today, this is a short and sweet tutorial on how to install a little webserver with PHP, MySQL and Apache so that you can do local web development. I would not advice to use this on a production server as it is unsecured.

Apache is the world mostly used web server and honestly, can be annoying to setup. Luckly, what we are going to be usiing is known as XAMPP for Linux (Used to be called LAMPP) and this is a little tutorial on how to install it, run it, secure it up a bit, where the config files and then, uninstalling.

In this tutorial, commands to type with be labeled with “$”.

You will need
Computer with Linux installed
Active internet connection

Step One

Open up terminal as root.

To do this, do either

$su
OR
$sudo xterminal

Step 2

$cd /root
$wget http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz
$tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.6.8a.tar.gz -C /opt

Done. All installed

Step 3

Now it is installed but it ain’t no fun if it ain’t running, so lets start it up.

$/opt/lampp/lampp start

Now, it will start and if it fails, drop me a message on the comments with the error message.

Step 4

Now, we need to make sure it works so open up your web browser and in the address bar type – http://127.0.0.1

Step 5

The default setting sucks if you want to use it live. To secure it a tiny bit, do the following but make sure that you remember it shouldn’t still be used live.

$/opt/lampp/lampp security

Tips and securing it up much, coming next week.

Installing Zivios Server On Ubuntu

This howto explains installing Zivios
Master Service version 0.5.0. Zivios is an n-tiered PHP-5 application,
providing identity management, single sign-on, user, group and computer
provisioning, as well as remote management of services. It uses MySQL
and OpenLDAP as
it’s data store, with OpenLdap being the primary back end for identity
management and application
integration and MySQL being used for panel specific data.

Minimal Ubuntu 8.04 Server Install

I find myself removing packages that I don’t need, especially if the
packages belong to processes that are using processor resources. There
is a way to start from the ground up, you can have a minimal system and
just add what you need. This has the added benefit of extra security,
your system doesn’t have services running that you don’t use. You won’t
use a Ubuntu Server CD, but the Desktop Live CD.