{"id":279,"date":"2015-02-20T21:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.st.ac.th\/krubuncha\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-11-21T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T02:07:21","slug":"how-to-install-wordpress-with-apache-on-freebsd-10-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.st.ac.th\/krubuncha\/how-to-install-wordpress-with-apache-on-freebsd-10-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install WordPress with Apache on FreeBSD 10.1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How To Install WordPress with Apache on FreeBSD 10.1<\/h1>\n

Posted<\/span>January 14, 2015<\/span><\/span> 24.4k<\/span>views<\/span><\/span> WORDPRESS<\/a> LAMP STACK<\/a> FREEBSD<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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Introduction<\/h3>\n

WordPress is a popular open source content management system (CMS) that can be used to easily set up a blog. It is a very flexible system, through its plugin and template support, that allows users to extend its functionality to meet their specific needs; WordPress can be customized to support anything from a basic blog to a fully-featured eCommerce site.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up WordPress with an Apache web server on FreeBSD 10.1.<\/p>\n

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Prerequisites<\/h2>\n

Before you begin this guide, you must have a FAMP (FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack server setup. This WordPress installation tutorial is based on this FAMP tutorial: How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 10.1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This tutorial assumes that you want to serve WordPress from the root of your web site, e.g.http:\/\/example.com\/<\/code>, and that your Apache document root is empty (aside from the default index.html<\/code> file).<\/p>\n

If you do not already have a FAMP setup, follow the linked guide before continuing with this tutorial. Note that this tutorial, like the linked FAMP guide, uses PHP 5.6.<\/p>\n

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Step One \u2014 Install Additional PHP Modules<\/h2>\n

Although you already have PHP 5.6 installed, WordPress requires additional PHP modules in order to function properly. We will use pkg<\/code> to install these required PHP modules.<\/p>\n

At the command prompt of your server, use this command to install all of the required PHP 5.6 modules:<\/p>\n

sudo pkg install php56-mysql \\\r\n php56-xml \\\r\n php56-hash \\\r\n php56-gd \\\r\n php56-curl \\\r\n php56-tokenizer \\\r\n php56-zlib \\\r\n php56-zip\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Each of these modules allows WordPress to use various functions in order to perform certain tasks. For example, php56-gd<\/code> provides libraries for image handling, and php56-curl<\/code> allows WordPress to download files from external servers for tasks such as plugin updates. Also note that if you followed the prerequisite FAMP tutorial, you should have already installed php56-mysql<\/code>, which allows WordPress to interact with a MySQL database.<\/p>\n
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Step Two \u2014 Prepare MySQL Database<\/h2>\n
WordPress uses a relational database, such as MySQL, to manage and store site and user information. In this step, we will prepare a MySQL database and user for WordPress to use.<\/p>\n
Log into the MySQL administrative account, root<\/code>, by issuing this command:<\/p>\n
mysql -u root -p\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
You will be prompted for the password that you set for the MySQL root account when you first installed MySQL. After providing the password, you will enter the MySQL command prompt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
We will now create the MySQL database that WordPress will use to store its data. You can call this whatever you like, but we will call ours wordpress<\/code> for our example. At the MySQL prompt, enter this SQL statement to create the database:<\/p>\n
CREATE DATABASE wordpress<\/span>;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Note that every MySQL statement must end in a semi-colon (;<\/code>) before it will execute.<\/p>\n
Next, we are going to create a MySQL user account that WordPress will use to interact with the database that we just created. For our example, we will call the new user wordpressuser<\/code> with a password ofpassword<\/code>. You should definitely change the password to something more secure, and you can use a different user name if you wish. This SQL statement will create our example user:<\/p>\n
CREATE USER wordpressuser<\/span>@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password<\/span>';\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
At this point, you have the MySQL database and user that WordPress will use. However, we must grant the user access to the database. To do this, we will use this SQL statement:<\/p>\n
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress<\/span>.* TO wordpressuser<\/span>@localhost;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Before this change in privileges will go into effect, we must flush the privileges with this SQL statement:<\/p>\n
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now exit the MySQL prompt:<\/p>\n
exit\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The MySQL database and user are now ready for use with a new WordPress installation. Let’s download WordPress now.<\/p>\n
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Step Three \u2014 Download WordPress<\/h2>\n
Now we must download the WordPress files from the project’s website.<\/p>\n
The archive of the latest stable release of WordPress is always available from the same URL. Download it to your home directory with the following commands:<\/p>\n
cd ~\r\nfetch http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.tar.gz\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now extract the archive with this command:<\/p>\n
tar xvf latest.tar.gz\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This extracts the contents of the archive to a directory called wordpress<\/code>, in your home directory.<\/p>\n
If you wish, you may delete the WordPress archive now:<\/p>\n
rm latest.tar.gz\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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Step Four \u2014 Configure WordPress<\/h2>\n
Before making WordPress accessible via our web server, we must configure it so that it will able to connect to the database that we created earlier.<\/p>\n
First, change to the wordpress<\/code> directory:<\/p>\n
cd ~\/wordpress\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
To make the configuration simple, let’s base our WordPress configuration on the provided sample configuration, wp-config-sample.php<\/code>. Copy the sample to wp-config.php<\/code>, the default WordPress configuration file:<\/p>\n
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now open the configuration file in an editor. We will use vi<\/code> for this purpose, but feel free to use your editor of choice:<\/p>\n
vi wp-config.php\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The only modifications we need to make are to the MySQL settings. We must update the values of the following parameters:<\/p>\n