How to install WordPress on CentOS

1. Make sure LAMP is ready

2. Download wordpress latest version

# cd ~/tmp

# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Current version is 3.3.1.

3. Extract the zip file and move to host folder

# unzip latest.zip

# mv wordpress /var/www/html/wp

# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wp             ————— change the owner as “apache”

4. Create a database for wordpress

mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'my-password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;



4. Set up configure file

# cd /var/www/html/wp
# cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
# vi wp-config.php


Replace following as yours:
database_name_here --> database name, such as "wordpress"
username_here -------> database user name, for instance "wp1"
password_here -------> database password, eg. "mypassword"

5. Start installation from web

http://192.168.1.1/wp/wp-admin/install.php

And then, follow the page to setup site information.