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Maintainer

stephdl Stéphane de Labrusse AKA Stephdl

Dungog.net (Software) : original developper

Version

Contrib 10:

1.2-12

Contrib 9:

1.2-9

smeserver-wordpress

The latest version of smeserver-wordpress is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Description

http://www.wordpress.org

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Installation

yum install --enablerepo=smecontribs smeserver-wordpress

After installation, you need to make the installation effective. If you do not want to reboot your server then enter:

signal-event wordpress-update ; config set UnsavedChanges no

or for a full reboot:

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

Initial Setup

To setup wordpress start your browser with the URL http://www.yourmaindomain/wordpress and complete the forms.

To make basic setup just enter a blog name and an administrator email address then click Setup. On the next screen you will be presented with the admin user name and a randomly generated admin password. Record these somewhere safe now !

Then click the Log in button, and enter your admin username (ie admin) and password, ie the ones just displayed on the previous screen.

The initial setup is done in the Settings link at the top right corner of the blog screen.

Configure as required, and save your changes before exiting.

Optional: If you want to change the domain URL that wordpress will be accessed with, apply any changes to the URL property before setting up wordpress, refer to options below, default is wordpress.

Upgrade Setup

If you already have an earlier version of wordpress installed, then you will need to run the upgrade option first. After installing the new rpm with yum (as per Installation instructions above), go to

http://www.yourmaindomain/wordpress/wp-admin/upgrade.php

and follow the instructions given.

Note:

according to bugzilla:8007, when you upgrade your wordpress website from the old version of Noble/Stephdl to the newer (=>3.7.1) of smecontribs, you may have a blank page, do not panic, it is mainly due to the lack of your theme/template in the new location (/usr/share/wordpress). You can either install another theme or play with rsync to copy your old wp-content folder to the new location before to proceed, you NEED all your backups (DB and /opt/wordpress folder) rsync -avz /opt/wordpress/wp-content/* /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/

Usage

Normal access by bloggers -> www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/

Admin or backend user access -> www.yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php

Options

• You can fine tune access to wordpress with DB settings.

http://wiki.contribs.org/Web_Application_RPM#New_DB_settings

• To disable wordpress. (default is enabled)

config setprop wordpress status disabled 

• To limit access to wordpress.

config setprop wordpress PublicAccess OPTION

OPTION is either of the following.

       none             => No access
       local            => Local network  (no password required)
       local-pw         => Local network  (password required)
       global           => Entire Internet(no password required)
       global-pw        => Entire Internet(password required)
       global-pw-remote => Entire Internet(password required outside local network)

• To add a different URL eg. yourserver.net/different-url

Note, this adds another url, it doesn't remove the default yourserver.net/wordpress

config setprop wordpress URL new-url-wordpress

This setting writes a new Alias to the httpd.conf file. Whatever you enter as new-url-wordpress is appended to your domain(s).

• Disconnect all users and force them to reconnect (default enabled)

config setprop wordpress Salt enabled
signal-event wordpress-update

or

signal-event console-save

every time you do a signal-event you change the random 'salt' in cookies, all users will be forced to log again.

• Local Settings

The config file is now templated, so changes need to be made in a new fragment, eg

 # ls /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/wordpress/wp-config.php/
 10db  20inc_dist  template-begin  template-end

check which setting you want to change with

 cat /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php

then add the new setting in the new fragment and expand, it will overrule the old

expand-template /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php

If you think your setting should be the default raise a bug

Recommended Plugins

Spam filtering is a popular plugin and recommended to prevent excessive spam being added to your wordpress blogsite. To configure the Akismet plugin offered by Wordpress do the following.

Login as admin.

Click on the Plugins link at top right of page.

The Plugin Management page will appear, and a list of Inactive Plugins is shown.

Check the tick box next to Akismet and then click on Activate

To complete the process you will need to enter your Wordpress.com API key

Click on the "enter your WordPress.com API key" link at the top of the page. If you do not already have a key, then click on the (Get your key) link.

This will take you to the wordpress.com site. You need to create a new user account (if you don't already have one). Click the Signup link and enter required details. Select the option to create "Just a username please" and do not create a blog site at wordpress.com.

You will receive a email confirmation to activate your account. After confirming your account creation, you will receive another email advising your new account details, and giving you the API key details.

Return to the admin page of your new wordpress blog site and click on the Plugins link. Select Akismet configuration and enter your API key details. If preferred, tick the check box next to "Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month"

Click the Update options button, and you should then see a confirmation notice that your key has been verified. Configure other Akismet settings as required. Save your changes, exit as admin user, and start using your blogsite.

Backup of Wordpress

	Warning:
	You are responsible of the backup process :)

the folder 'wp-content' and the mysql database are now included in the official backup of smeserver. If you use that backup way you will retrieve the mysql database and the folder wp-content.

if you dont want to use that backup way you can do

config setprop wordpress BackupFiles disabled
signal-event wordpress-update

Uninstallation

To remove the package issue the following command on the SME Server shell:

rpm -e wordpress smeserver-wordpress

To remove mysql database and user, both are named wordpress, see MySQL#Remove a database and MySQL#Remove a user. There is no need to reboot.

1. Delete MySQL database:

mysql
drop database wordpress;

2. Delete MySQL user:

mysql
USE mysql;
DELETE FROM user WHERE user = 'wordpress';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-wordpress component or use this link .

ID	Product	Version	Status	Summary (3 tasks) ⇒
12766	SME Contribs	11.0	UNCONFIRMED	change php version to contrib smeserver-wordpress
12201	SME Contribs	10.0	UNCONFIRMED	Limit log noise in /var/log/httpd/error_log
12176	SME Contribs	10.0	UNCONFIRMED	php version hard coded to 73 in httpd.conf