Install¶

Install Repository¶

Install epel repository

Install Package¶

yum install wordpress

Basic Setup¶

best is to follow http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

create MySQL-DB¶

$ mysql -u adminusername -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5340 to server version: 3.23.54

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO "wordpressusername"@"hostname" IDENTIFIED BY "password";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> EXIT
Bye
$ 

• open http://example.com/wordpress
• enter username/password for ADMIN

Wordpress Farm¶

after some discussion and testing following set-up was chosen:

• Wordpress is just a bunch of PHP-scripts. Copy all files from usr/share/wordpress/ over to the root-folder of the site
• set-up each site individually each one with a separate MySQL-DB

SSL secured web-server¶

see also http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Https

configure outgoing mail¶

WordPress does not send mail via SMTP out of the box. Following Plugin is working with Wordpress 3.5.1 Configure SMTP

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/installation/

Backup/Restore¶

MySQL¶

MariaDB 5.5 Disaster Recovery

Update¶

While updating Plugins and Themes can be done via the Admin-Panel the wordpress-core needs to be updated on our machines manually.

this is basically taken from http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

• Backup all files and settings

cd /var/www/html/
tar -pcvzf example.com.yyyymmdd.tar.gz ./example.com
chown root:root example.com.yyyymmdd.tar.gz
chmod 600 example.com.yyyy.tar.gz

• Backup database, refer to appropriate section.
• login to http://example.com/wp-admin and deactivate all plugins
• logout admin-dashboard
• delete old wp-includes and wp-admin directories

cd /var/www/html/example.com/wp-includes
/bin/rm -r *
cd /
rmdir /var/www/html/example.com/wp-includes
cd /var/www/html/example.com/wp-admin
/bin/rm -r *
cd /
rmdir /var/www/html/example.com/wp-admin

• copy new wp-includes and wp-admin directories in place

cp -r /usr/share/wordpress/wp-includes /var/www/html/example.com
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/example.com/wp-includes
cp -r /usr/share/wordpress/wp-admin /var/www/html/example.com
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/example.com/wp-admin

• Upload the individual files from the new wp-content folder to your existing wp-content folder, overwriting existing files. Do NOT delete your existing wp-content folder. Do NOT delete any files or folders in your existing wp-content directory (except for the one being overwritten by new files).

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --partial --recursive /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/* /var/www/html/example.com/wp-content/.
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/example.com/wp-content

• Upload all new loose files from the root directory of the new version to your existing wordpress root directory.

rsync --verbose --progress --stats --partial --exclude "wp-config.php" /usr/share/wordpress/* /var/www/html/example.com/.
chown apache:apache /var/www/html/example.com/*

• Visit your main WordPress admin page at /wp-admin. You may be asked to login again. If a database upgrade is necessary at this point, WordPress will detect it and give you a link to a URL like http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php. Follow that link and follow the instructions. This will update your database to be compatible with the latest code. You should do this as soon as possible.
• login to http://example.com/wp-admin and reactivate necessary plugins

Troubleshooting¶

This site has some really useful information

• http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Sivel/FAQ