Rolling out WordPress was actually the last of the administrative acts I have accomplished on this server, and it was by far the easiest of the implementations. I feel sheepish even calling it an implementation. It was almost embarrassingly easy to get it up and running. I downloaded the latest version of WordPress from the WordPress download sections into my /usr/src directory. This I did with:
cd /usr/src
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
After it completed its download, I untarred it, then copied it in its entirety to my apache document root directory.
tar xvf latest.tar.gz
cp -r wordpress /my/apache/documentroot/
Then, I gave apache ownership of the whole directory with:
chown -R apache: /my/apache/documentroot/wordpress
Then opening up a web browser to the WordPress index I followed the install methods.
But wait, a snag! Mysqld wasn’t working! WordPress alerted me to the fact that my PHP installation didn’t have the proper Mysql integration! Oh no! All is lost, and life is meaningless!
Except, all that was required, as I already had PHP installed was to make sure that the php-mysql package was installed. The CentOS community repos make this available as a yum install. So I went ahead an did that with:
yum install php-mysql
After getting php-mysql installed, WordPress held my hand the rest of the way, and it was up and running within seconds. It was remarkable. Bless open source web development and the heroes that keep it moving forward. Bless them one and all.