Wordpress

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Wordpress is a blog web-server-stack application content management system.

Install

root # emerge wordpress

MySQL

Warning

default "changeme" passwords are insecure, change them!

To create a database for wordpress to interact with:

root # mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `wordpress` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET `utf8` COLLATE `utf8_unicode_ci`;
mysql> CREATE USER 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'changeme';
mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON `wordpress`.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'changeme';
mysql> \q

/var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php (php source code) - insert database information

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'wordpress');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'changeme');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

acquire your own salts and insert them into your configuration file. https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

/var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php (php source code) - add a salt

define('AUTH_KEY',         '5%#gO!G+miM;(Jt8U^12SAh');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'hJ~Hi:(R/:^l$M;(Vfp:+04$A');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'f^%jl;[9~8],LA^Eq]-5*');
define('NONCE_KEY',        '&IX,NkKM;M;(Jt(Jt8U^j;(m7');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'TX^29j/P7[q0GhM;(Jt8U^-ug&mh');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '<p@0$;jThph,2M6e8i<UAW=');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'O0TY<>%eIAs/=;O&7@LkhxduYhg6');
define('NONCE_SALT',       'VQ^-BR7YM;(Jt8U^D4ZRMY#[');

Database and database user are "wordpress" and passwords are what you set in your mysql database generation step. (changeme fields)

5 minute installer

Point your browser @ http://localhost/wordpress/

Name your website, and make a default administrator password.

Administration & Use

Administer your WordPress @ http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/

Your shiny new blog is located @ http://localhost/wordpress/

Plugins & Themes & Images

Important

This section is in need of updates.

Warning

this section is out of date and designed for the dso php handler

Wordpress is a bit of a permissions nightmare. Themes and plugins will ask for ftp access due to permission problems. For now Threesixes (talk) is getting around it by.

Fix permissions to enable uploading content such as banners:

root # chown apache:apache /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content

Fix permissions to enable themes, and plugins:

root # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-admin/

root # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/

root # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/

This clearly is breaking the security of the webapp. To "restore" security once all is set how you want it.

root # chown -R root:root /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress

This is probably not enough, and probably not correct.

Package:Wordpress