Raspberry Pi 3 – Day 10

thebuzz May 23, 2017 Uncategorized 0

WordPress Installation

WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.

WordPress is the most popular open source Content Management System (CMS) used in 73 million websites. It is free to install, deploy, and upgrade. Thousands of plugins and templates power a flexible and simple interface, which reduces cost and deployment time.

It requires –

Php
MySQL
Apache2 server ( Installed in day 8 )

Install PHP

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 -y

Test PHP Installation

1. sudo leafpad /var/www/html/index.php

   Type following and save the file -
 <?php echo "hello world"; ?> 2. sudo rm index.html 3. Test by opening following in the browser - http://localhost

Install MySQL

1. sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql -y
 Please note that it will require to followup the setup. Please follow the instruction in the class. 2. Restart the Apache2 services - sudo service apache2 restart

Download Wordpress


1. Use following link to download the wordpress -
    Download


2. Unzip it -
    cd ~/Downloads
    unzip latest.zip
3. move it to /var/www/html
 
OR -
cd /var/www/html/ && sudo rm * && sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && sudo tar xzf latest.tar.gz && sudo mv wordpress/* . && sudo rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz && sudo chown -R www-data: .

Set up your WordPress Database

mysql -uroot -ppassword
mysql> create database wordpress;

Setup WordPress

Navigate to -
http://localhost
And follow the instruction in the class.

Raspberry Pi 3 – Day 10