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layout: post title: installing wordpress on aliyun

1. ali yun install for wordpress 2018-09-05 10:35

install required software

{% highlight bash %} apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0-mysql {% endhighlight %} libapache2-mod-php7.0 is important to be able to parse php file properly

{% highlight bash %} wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz mysql -u root -p

{% endhighlight %}

{% highlight bash %} CREATE DATABASE wpdatabase; CREATE USER wpuser@localhost; SET PASSWORD FOR wpuser@localhost= PASSWORD("dbpassword"); GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wpdatabase.* TO wpuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'dbpassword'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit {% endhighlight %} in the file wp-config.php

{% highlight bash %} // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define('DB_NAME', 'wpdatabase');

/** MySQL database username */ define('DB_USER', 'wpuser');

/** MySQL database password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', 'dbpassword');

{% endhighlight %}

{% highlight bash %} chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ; find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ; {% endhighlight %} above is important

NOTE

the file address is /var/www/html/ in debian stretch

chinese support is done by enable a plugin multiligual

reference:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-wordpress-on-debian-9-stretch-linux

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-debian-7

2. the password for root in mysql is lost

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41645309/mysql-error-access-denied-for-user-rootlocalhost

the etc location is /etc/mysql/my.cnf

add both [mysqld]

skip-grant-tables

now run

mysql -u root -p

second, the