Installing Wordpress - Raspberry Pi User Manual

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By default, files for the web server are stored in the folder, which is writeable only
/var/www
by the root user . To adjust where Apache looks for its files—to move the website onto more
capacious external storage, for example—edit the text file found in the folder
000-default
. For more information on configuring Apache, PHP and
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
MySQL, type the following commands at the terminal or console:
man apache2
man php5
man mysql

Installing WordPress

One of the most popular blogging platforms around, WordPress is an open-source project
that aims to give users a simple yet powerful platform to create attractive, interactive web-
sites . WordPress is built on a base of PHP and Javascript, and offers an attractive web-based
interface for creating rich websites . For example, some of the most popular news sites in the
world are built on a customised WordPress platform .
To install WordPress on the Raspberry Pi, type the following command at the terminal or
console:
sudo apt-get install wordpress
Like the LAMP stack, WordPress comes with a selection of dependencies (see Figure 9-5) .
You'll need to make sure you have around 37 MB of free space on the Pi's SD card for the full
installation, in addition to the 113 MB required for the LAMP stack . If you have enough free
space, type Y to continue the installation process .
When WordPress has finished installing, its default installation directory—
/usr/share/
—needs to be linked into the directory in order for Apache to see the
wordpress /var/www
files . Type the following command at the terminal:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/wordpress