This post is part of a step-by-step series on installing WordPress on Linux (CentOS 6)
I prefer to install things with yum (or any package manager) when I can, but unfortunately there are some limitations to the epel WordPress package as we discussed in the post about installing WordPress using yum. This post will deal with how to install WordPress directly, though I will use yum for dependencies.
Requirements
The official requirements are as follows:
- PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
- MySQL version 5.0 or greater
If you wish to install these separately you may do using the following tutorials:
Making Sure All Dependencies are Installed
Technically we don’t have to do this step because the tutorials above will explain how to install the WordPress requirements, but let’s cheat a bit and use yum‘s awesome capabilities to get our dependencies in order:
Installing the EPEL Repo
Choose your OS here. I will be installing on CentOS 6:
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Check here to see how to give a linux user sudo powers.
Temporary yum Installation
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ sudo yum install wordpress
For the dependencies you will notice a whole lot of extra things being installed:
Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
wordpress noarch 3.9.2-3.el6 epel 4.7 M
Installing for dependencies:
enchant x86_64 1:1.5.0-4.el6 base 49 k
freetype x86_64 2.3.11-14.el6_3.1 base 359 k
hunspell x86_64 1.2.8-16.el6 base 177 k
libX11 x86_64 1.5.0-4.el6 base 584 k
libX11-common noarch 1.5.0-4.el6 base 192 k
libXau x86_64 1.0.6-4.el6 base 24 k
libXpm x86_64 3.5.10-2.el6 base 51 k
libxcb x86_64 1.8.1-1.el6 base 110 k
libxslt x86_64 1.1.26-2.el6_3.1 base 452 k
php-IDNA_Convert noarch 0.8.0-1.el6 epel 35 k
php-PHPMailer noarch 5.2.2-1.el6 epel 474 k
php-simplepie noarch 1.3.1-3.el6 epel 465 k
php55w-enchant x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 15 k
php55w-gd x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 142 k
php55w-mbstring x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 941 k
php55w-mysqlnd x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 245 k
php55w-pdo x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 93 k
php55w-process x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 34 k
php55w-xml x86_64 5.5.15-1.w6 webtatic 144 k
t1lib x86_64 5.1.2-6.el6_2.1 base 160 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 21 Package(s)
Notice all the extra packages, even though we had already installed the mentioned pre-requisites.
Uninstall the yum Version of WordPress
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ sudo yum remove wordpress
enter y when asked to confirm. Notice that the list of removed items is only wordpress and not the whole list of other programs.
Download the WordPress Installation file
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Let’s check it is there:
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ ls
latest.zip
Unzip the File
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ unzip latest.zip
A huge list of unzipped files should appear. Let’s see what it produced:
[ahmed@amayem ~]$ ls
latest.zip wordpress
It made a directory called wordpress. Let’s peek inside:
[ahmed@marzooq wordpress]$ ls
index.php wp-admin wp-cron.php wp-mail.php
license.txt wp-blog-header.php wp-includes wp-settings.php
readme.html wp-comments-post.php wp-links-opml.php wp-signup.php
wordpress wp-config.php wp-load.php wp-trackback.php
wp-activate.php wp-content wp-login.php xmlrpc.php
This is the directory where WordPress will run from, though we can change that in the future:
Next Steps
- Setting Up MySQL Database
- Updating wp-config.php with Database Settings and Security Keys
- Deciding the Site Root Directory and Moving Files there
- Running the WordPress php Install Script
