WordPress installation

To setup a blog server on Raspberry Pi, WordPress is a good solution.

1. Install Apache, MySQL and PHP.

2. Install WordPress:

sudo apt-get install wordpress

3. Link the newly create folder "blog" on Apache server to the location of WordPress:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/blog

go to /var/www/blog/ and check with the ls command.

Go back to /var/www/ and type ls -l.

It is shown that blog -> /usr/share/wordpress.

4. Go to MySQL monitor:

mysql -u root -p

Create a database called "wordpress" within MySQL monitor:

create database wordpress;

Check if the database is created successfully:

show databases;

Type quit to exit the MySQL monitor.

5. Copy and edit the php file below using these commands:

sudo cp /var/www/blog/wp-config-sample.php /etc/wordpress/config-default.php

sudo nano /etc/wordpress/config-default.php

6. Edit the database, username, and password as:

wordpress, root, and your_password

Use a browser of another PC to access:

192.168.xxx.xxx/blog/

the browser is redirected to

192.168.xxx.xxx/blog/wp-admin/install.php

Follow the instructions to install WordPress.

Done~

Login to WordPress and add the first post.

Go back to the blog address:

192.168.xxx.xxx/blog/

Now the first post is successfully displayed!!