Wordpress

A quick guide on installing WordPress on an Ubuntu server. Begin by downloading the latest WordPress image to the home directory. $ cd ~ $ wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz Extract the image $ tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz Copy the extracted files to the root website folder $ sudo rsync -av wordpress/* /var/www/html/ Setup permissions $ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/ $ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/ Setup the default database for the WordPress server to use ...

So I’ve decided to take the plunge into the world of blogging and website hosting. My initial motivation to venture into this world is to have a nice format to publish reviews of books I read. My secondary motivation being to learn the details associated with setting up and hosting websites. An initial search of website options led me to WordPress as the best option for a self-hosted website, and a fee other options for non-self-hosted websites (e.g. Blogger, Squarespace, WordPress.com). Seeing the benefit in learning the nuts and bolts that sit behind the website, I decided to go down the, self-hosted, WordPress path. ...