Wordpress installation 5 Minute Super Guide

5 Minute Super Guide:

Main Install

Make sure CentoOS is upto date:

yum update

Install Apache/Mysql/PHP/Unzip/Wget:

yum -y install mysql-server httpd php php-mysql unzip wget

Enable Apache and MySQL

chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig mysqld on

Start Apache and MySQL

/etc/init.d/mysqld start
/etc/init.d/httpd start


Set root password for MySQL (IMPORTANT!)

mysql -u root
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEWPASSWORD") where User='root';
mysql> flush privileges;


Setup WordPress Database

mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURPASSWORD';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit;

Download WordPress

cd /var/www/html
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Extract WordPress

unzip latest.zip
rm latest.zip

Move WordPress to Root Directory

mv wordpress/* ./
rmdir wordpress/

Give WordPress permissions to write

mkdir wp-content/uploads wp-content/cache
chown apache:apache wp-content/uploads wp-content/cache ./

Open and configure WordPress

http://your-server-ip-or-hostname/

In the Config enter your SQL Username ‘wordpress’ and the password you set earlier.

Click Save and your all done!

Fixes permissions for Permalinks:

chown apache:apache /var/www/html/.htaccess

Let Appache Edit .htaccess for Permalinks:

nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

And edit the Section:

<Directory "/var/www/html">

And Change Allow ovride to:

AllowOverride ALL

Enable Multiple Sites:

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);