{"id":9,"date":"2013-01-26T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murraymurray.dyndns-home.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2013-01-26T06:45:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:45:39","slug":"rolling-out-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/rolling-out-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Out WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/foomandoonian.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/splatter-grunge-wordpress-logo.png?w=848\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"509\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">WordPress&#8217;s Gritty Reboot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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. \u00a0I feel sheepish even calling it an implementation. \u00a0It 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. \u00a0This I did with:<br \/>\ncd \/usr\/src<br \/>\nwget http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.tar.gz<br \/>\nAfter it completed its download, I untarred it, then copied it in its entirety to my apache document root directory.<br \/>\ntar xvf latest.tar.gz<br \/>\ncp -r wordpress \/my\/apache\/documentroot\/<br \/>\nThen, I gave apache ownership of the whole directory with:<br \/>\nchown -R apache: \/my\/apache\/documentroot\/wordpress<br \/>\nThen opening up a web browser to the WordPress index I followed the install methods.<br \/>\nBut wait, a snag! \u00a0Mysqld wasn\u2019t working! \u00a0WordPress alerted me to the fact that my PHP installation didn\u2019t have the proper Mysql integration! \u00a0Oh no! \u00a0All is lost, and life is meaningless!<br \/>\nExcept, all that was required, as I already had PHP installed was to make sure that the php-mysql package was installed. \u00a0The CentOS community repos make this available as a yum install. \u00a0So I went ahead an did that with:<br \/>\nyum install php-mysql<br \/>\nAfter getting php-mysql installed, WordPress held my hand the rest of the way, and it was up and running within seconds. \u00a0It was remarkable. \u00a0Bless open source web development and the heroes that keep it moving forward. \u00a0Bless them one and a<b id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6940665536094457\">ll.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0I feel sheepish even calling it an implementation. \u00a0It was almost embarrassingly easy to get it up and running. I downloaded the latest version of WordPress from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-status-of-the-blog","category-uncategorized","category-website-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblinpeasant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}