[SOLVED] Uninstalling unwanted PHP and mariadb packages [WAS Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?]

2023-11-11 Thread Susmita/Rajib
For all the debian-users who might fall into the same ditch into which I had fallen, to alert them ... I thank Mr. Cater for his advice at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00443.html. I raed his advice and understood that while uninstalling I should follow a path chronologically rev

Uninstalling unwanted PHP and mariadb packages [WAS Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?]

2023-11-11 Thread Susmita/Rajib
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:39:01 + Message-id: <[🔎] zu-ujrqewxkor...@einval.com> In-reply-to: <[🔎] CAEG4cZXquvxryjdFLCgHBiteyx8mFm=e+kjcusxnhhj0+zp...@mail.gmail.com>, https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00415.html On Sun, 12 Nov 2023 at 07:42, Susmita/Raj

Uninstalling unwanted PHP and mariadb packages [WAS Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?]

2023-11-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 05:44:29PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Apologise for the typos and incorrect sentence constructions in my > earlier post. But I am sure that Mr. would be able to bypass the > errors to extract the information intended for him. > > My synaptic has a Log file for the insta

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 09:51:41PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Dear illustrious leaders and the senior members, Debian-user ML, Did you want any assistance from people who aren't illustrious leaders and senior members? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread Susmita/Rajib
Apologise for the typos and incorrect sentence constructions in my earlier post. But I am sure that Mr. would be able to bypass the errors to extract the information intended for him. My synaptic has a Log file for the installed packages yesterday: Commit Log for Fri Nov 10 21:04:10 2023 Upgr

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread Susmita/Rajib
Two messages from debian-user-howorth-org-uk (1) From: debian-u...@howorth.org.uk Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:10:22 + Message-id: <[🔎] 2023111022.58bb3...@acer-suse.lan> On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 17:09, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > Marco wrote: > > Am 11.11.2023 06:58 schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > > [

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread debian-user
Marco wrote: > Am 11.11.2023 06:58 schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > > > mysqli > > > > MysqlI Support => enabled > > Client API library version => mysqlnd 7.4.33 > > Active Persistent Links => 0 > > Inactive Persistent Links => 0 > > Active Links => 0 > > Can you now try to create your own php script

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread debian-user
at > http://ckraju.net/blog/?p=189 > > I received a Firefox-esr notice: > "Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which > is required by WordPress." > > Searching the internet, I reached the Stack Overflow page with the > partial title:

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread Susmita/Rajib
From: Marco Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 08:37:12 +0100 Message-id: <[🔎] 2023083712.6badf0b7@x40> On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 15:31, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > Am 11.11.2023 06:58 schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > > > mysqli > > > > MysqlI Support => enabled > > Client API library version => mysqlnd 7.4.33 > > Ac

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-10 Thread Marco
Am 11.11.2023 06:58 schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > mysqli > > MysqlI Support => enabled > Client API library version => mysqlnd 7.4.33 > Active Persistent Links => 0 > Inactive Persistent Links => 0 > Active Links => 0 Can you now try to create your own php script that makes use of that to test it?

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-10 Thread Susmita/Rajib
From: "Marco M." Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:10:02 +0100 Message-id: <[🔎] 20231110201002.606c1...@ryz.home.arpa> > > Am 10.11.2023 um 23:48:35 Uhr schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > > > But the result remains the same. > > Can you use the php info function to get information about the php > stuff that is bein

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-10 Thread Marco M.
Am 10.11.2023 um 23:48:35 Uhr schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > But the result remains the same. Can you use the php info function to get information about the php stuff that is being loaded?

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-10 Thread Susmita/Rajib
From: "Marco M." Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:40:56 +0100 Message-id: <[🔎] 20231110174056.3760b...@ryz.home.arpa> [ ... ] > > That is the old Sysvinit method. > Use systemd tools instead > > systemctl status mysql Thank you, Mr. M. Checked. >From superuser: ● mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.5.

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-10 Thread Marco M.
Am 10.11.2023 um 21:51:41 Uhr schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > I installed them all. Then I tried to follow the instructions: > # sudo /etc/init.d/mysql status > sudo: /etc/init.d/mysql: command not found That is the old Sysvinit method. Use systemd tools instead systemctl status mysql

How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-10 Thread Susmita/Rajib
t;Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress." Searching the internet, I reached the Stack Overflow page with the partial title: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress at: https://stackoverflo

Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread Dan Ritter
nother problem is the response tim of > the server. So a program such as varnish could improve the response time, > but it implies a good setting with Wordpress and Apache Step 1: Forget about Varnish. Uninstall it. Step 2: Install https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ Step 3: Config

Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 03/12/2020 à 13:28, john doe a écrit : On 12/3/2020 12:36 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hey guys, I need some help setting up a Varnish server and tweaking it to get along with Wordpress. (On a Debian VPS with Apache.) Why don't you take a VPS that do that for you? Mainly be

Re: Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread john doe
On 12/3/2020 12:36 PM, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hey guys, I need some help setting up a Varnish server and tweaking it to get along with Wordpress. (On a Debian VPS with Apache.) Why don't you take a VPS that do that for you? I have very little experience with reverse proxie

Optimizing a server running Wordpress

2020-12-03 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hey guys, I’m working on a website for my company (it’s a small Free Software company in France, mainly catering to visually-impaired computer users), and I need some help setting up a Varnish server and tweaking it to get along with Wordpress. (On a Debian VPS with Apache.) I have very

WordPress Log Out Issue

2020-10-07 Thread Chuck Nemeth
Hello! When attempting to log out of a newly installed WordPress site, it redirects to "http://wp-login.php/?loggedout=true"; (it's missing the hostname). I followed the instructions on the wiki to install: https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress, but will post my procedure below as well

Wordpress UTF-8 problem after PHP upgrade (from 5.6 to 7.3)

2020-06-23 Thread Christoph K.
Hello, I've just upgraded from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.3 (and reverted back for now). With PHP 7.3 there is a problem in Wordpress displaying german Umlaute and other UTF-8 related characters. I guess it's just some locale-related setting somewhere, any suggestions? Thanks, Christoph

Re: OT: maybe_hash_hex_color not in formatting.php despite WordPress documentation

2017-08-07 Thread Kent West
file, there is no "maybe_hash_hex_color". > Not being proficient in Wordpress, you can guess that it was my fault Debian's WordPress installs into /usr/share/wordpress. I thought it wasn't a good idea to have user-changeable files in the /usr partition, so appare

OT: maybe_hash_hex_color not in formatting.php despite WordPress documentation

2017-08-07 Thread Kent West
Not entirely off-topic, as I (think I) am using Debian's WordPress: [goshen]:/web/FIFTHANDGRAPE/wp-includes:> aptitude show wordpress Package: wordpress Version: 4.7.5+dfsg-2 New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no When using the hueman theme, I get a blank page. When I

Re: How do I update the plug-ins in WordPress? Followed wiki.debian.org/WordPress. Says I need ftp server.

2016-12-13 Thread Nate Homier
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 8:44 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 10/12/2016 23:59, Nate Homier wrote: >> >> Debian 8 server. all updates applied. >> >> Followed carefully the wiki.debian.org/WordPress instructions. Now >> WordPress says askimet plugin needs

Re: How do I update the plug-ins in WordPress? Followed wiki.debian.org/WordPress. Says I need ftp server.

2016-12-13 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 10/12/2016 23:59, Nate Homier wrote: Debian 8 server. all updates applied. Followed carefully the wiki.debian.org/WordPress instructions. Now WordPress says askimet plugin needs to be updated, but that ftp fails. I can't update plugin without having a ftp server apparently. Othe

How do I update the plug-ins in WordPress? Followed wiki.debian.org/WordPress. Says I need ftp server.

2016-12-10 Thread Nate Homier
Debian 8 server. all updates applied. Followed carefully the wiki.debian.org/WordPress instructions. Now WordPress says askimet plugin needs to be updated, but that ftp fails. I can't update plugin without having a ftp server apparently. Otherwise WordPress works great. how do I updat

Re: Followed https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress got mysql error, syntax Error 1064

2016-12-04 Thread Nate Homier
A ha, line numbers! Toggle line numbers 1 CREATE DATABASE wordpress; 2 GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,ALTER 3 ON wordpress.* 4 TO wordpress@localhost 5 IDENTIFIED BY 'NaTe1973J15!'; 6 FLUSH PRIVILEGES; ​ Now that is very obvious once you know it. I t

Re: Followed https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress got mysql error, syntax Error 1064

2016-12-04 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Nate Homier writes: > I followed the Debian wiki for Wordpress. I got to the part about > > cat ~/wp.sql | mysql --defaults-extra-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf > > And boom, error! > > Error is; 1064 (42000) at line 1: > > you have an error in your SQL syntax > >

Re: Followed https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress got mysql error, syntax Error 1064

2016-12-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 11:46:16PM -0700, Nate Homier wrote: > I followed the Debian wiki for Wordpress. I got to the part about > > cat ~/wp.sql | mysql --defaults-extra-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf Can you show us the file "wp.sql&

Followed https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress got mysql error, syntax Error 1064

2016-12-03 Thread Nate Homier
I followed the Debian wiki for Wordpress. I got to the part about cat ~/wp.sql | mysql --defaults-extra-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf And boom, error! Error is; 1064 (42000) at line 1: you have an error in your SQL syntax 1 CREATE DATABASE wordpress' at line 1 I am running latest versi

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-21 Thread gricketson
>> Is there perhaps a definitive document that explains how WordPress >> things are set up in Debian. The /usr/share/wordpress/readme.html >> starts off by unpacking the zip file, which tells me that's not the >> document that describes The Debian Way. There

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 19-09-2016 15:29, Kent West wrote: > Is there perhaps a definitive document that explains how WordPress > things are set up in Debian. The /usr/share/wordpress/readme.html > starts off by unpacking the zip file, which tells me that's not the > document that describes The Debia

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
: I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all over the machine. So what I'm hearing is that I should forego using apt/aptitude to install WordPress, and just install in manually? Neither of

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/19/2016 12:11 PM, Kent West wrote: There's a lot of conflicting documentation out there for installing WordPress on Debian, so I thought I'd come to you folks, who generally have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in all things Debian. This will wind up being more a theoretical discu

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Anthony Baldwin
wrote: I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all over the machine. So what I'm hearing is that I should forego using apt/aptitude to install WordPress, and just install in manually? Neith

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread davidson
On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, Kent West wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread David Wright
On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > >>> > >>> I make a new user on the server for each new WP site, and then install > >>>> their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all > >>>> over the machine. > >>> &g

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Kent West
he server for each new WP site, and then install >>>> their WP in /home/$user/www . much simpler than having bits of it all >>>> over the machine. >>> >>> > > So what I'm hearing is that I should forego using apt/aptitude to install > WordPress, and ju

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> >> I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on >>> my server and basically manually in

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Tony Baldwin
On 09/19/2016 12:26 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 9/19/16 12:20 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debian Way, aka the Right Way for most stuff

Re: WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Tony Baldwin
I have always downloaded the latest from wordpress, created a DB on my server and basically manually installed the upstream pkg (which I know is often discouraged here, but if you do it Our Way (ie. the Debian Way, aka the Right Way for most stuff), and then ask any questions on #wordpress on

WordPress on Debian

2016-09-19 Thread Kent West
There's a lot of conflicting documentation out there for installing WordPress on Debian, so I thought I'd come to you folks, who generally have a lot of wisdom and knowledge in all things Debian. This will wind up being more a theoretical discussion than a specific question of h

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-23 Thread Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak
Jean-Louis Mas wrote: > Le 19/03/2016 14:31, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak a écrit : > >> what may I be missing, if the configuration that came with wordpress >> package doesn't apply correctly? >> there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: >> define(&#x

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-23 Thread Jean-Louis Mas
Le 19/03/2016 14:31, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak a écrit : > what may I be missing, if the configuration that came with wordpress > package doesn't apply correctly? > there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: > define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wor

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-20 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:27:03 +0100 Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak wrote: > Hi, > > the line in /usr is there by default (in package) and is not applied, > until I copy it to /etc. that's the strange part. > > Gh. > > arian wrote: > > No idea of wordpress,

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-19 Thread Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak
Hi, the line in /usr is there by default (in package) and is not applied, until I copy it to /etc. that's the strange part. Gh. arian wrote: > No idea of wordpress, but > >> there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: >> define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-19 Thread arian
No idea of wordpress, but > there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: > define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content'); > > but that doesn't have any effect unless I define it in > /etc/wordpress/config-www.domain.tld.conf too. what h

wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-19 Thread Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak
Hi, what may I be missing, if the configuration that came with wordpress package doesn't apply correctly? there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content'); but that doesn't have any effect unless I defi

Wordpress sending mail problem

2014-05-26 Thread Mehmet Recep Turkoglu
Hello I am running websites build wordpress on a virtual debian (7.4) server. But wordpress cant send mail. It seems everthing is OK. I installed sendmail but result didn't changed. I want to send you some configuration files or log but I dont know which one will be beneficial to solve pr

Re: How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
;> There was some recent discussion on the mentors list about >>> recruiting new folks to help with maintaining the Debian >>> WordPress packages. I presume we won't see any updates past >>> 3.6.1 until that issue is resolved? >> >> Yes, but it won

How to updated after install? [Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?]

2013-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
s one… Somehow I >> missed it in all my googling. > > :) > It didn't exist when you did your Googling. I wrote it *after* reading > your post. Wow! Thanks! As noted, it was a tremendous help. >> https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress >> >> By *caref

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-12-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
r* reading your post. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress > > By *carefully* following *all* the instructions there, I was able to > get a functioning WordPress v3.6.1 (latest available in the Debian > Wheezy archives). I believe this will do the job for the time > bein

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks to all who replied. I got lots of useful suggestions. The one that finally got me off the ground is this one… Somehow I missed it in all my googling. https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress By *carefully* following *all* the instructions there, I was able to get a functioning

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies writes: > Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind > the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix > security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an "older" > version for a potentially Internet-facin

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > I'm just the opposite. I need stable servers, which is why I use Debian. > If I wanted the "latest and greatest", I would go to Ubuntu or some other > distro. RHEL and its clones, SUSE, and Ubuntu LTS are just as stable as Debian so you m

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Jerry Stuckle
ct. Your suggestion raises the question, though, of what do I do when I want to upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie in a year or so? Will I get a toxic mix of Debian-wordpress and wordpress-upstream? In other words, am I stuck on Wheezy until I'm willing to do a complete re-install of wordpress fr

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:52 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman >> wrote: >> >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>>> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debi

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 18:31, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman > wrote: > >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress >>> package. It installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date &g

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. It >> installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's version >> has nothing to do with the ve

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:38 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Hi Rick, >> >> These instructions should work for Debian as well: >> http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/05/09/how-to-wordpress-on-ubuntu-gnu-linux/ >> >> The main thing is to get Apache & PHP

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 15:12, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. >> It installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's >> version has nothing to do with the version number of the

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package. It installs WordPress, WordPress keeps itself up-to-date - i.e. it's version has nothing to do with the version number of the debian installer. On 28/11/13 09:48, Scott Ferguson wrote: Which is r

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
istribution becomes the new stable. > Of course, there is backports, but some would argue that then, by > definition, you are no longer running a stable system. *End quote from unrelated thread* The OP (in this thread) is asking about the Debian WordPress package

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
completely different tangent..." > > Why? What I wrote is true. The Debian Wordpress package happens to be > an installer package created by the Debian Wordpress maintainers, but > what I wrote applies to it as it does to all Debian packages. At best it's ambiguous as it doesn

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Scott Ferguson > It would have been helpful to preface your post with "I'm guessing..." Why? What I wrote is true. The Debian Wordpress package happens to be an installer package created by the Debian Wordpress maintainers, but what I wrote applies to it as it does to a

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 01:29, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Davies writes: >> Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind >> the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix >> security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an &qu

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/11/13 03:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> Chris Davies writes: >>> Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind >>> the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix >>> security issues, so I hav

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 23:16, Chris Davies wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: >> Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? > >> I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the >> necessary other packages, like apache2, mys

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Debian backports security fixes to Stable. That's why they have a > security team and it's what they mean when they say that Stable is > supported. Miles Fidelman writes: > That's kind of besides the point in this case. Wordpress has a pretty > sophis

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Hasler wrote: Chris Davies writes: Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an "older" version for a potentially Internet-fac

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread John Hasler
Chris Davies writes: > Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind > the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix > security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an "older" > version for a potentially Internet-

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Davies
Rick Thomas wrote: > Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? > I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the > necessary other packages, like apache2, mysql, php… etc. So I *think* > I've got all the tool

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/11/13 19:21, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 24 November 2013 07:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >> sudo aptitude install wordpress >> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a worki

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-27 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 24 November 2013 07:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from > sudo aptitude install wordpress > on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress > website on the same machine? >

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 12:10, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/11/13 10:13, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >>> sudo aptitude install wordpress >>> on a freshly scrubbed, newly

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 10:13, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: >> Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from >> sudo aptitude install wordpress >> on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working >> wordpress website on the sa

Fwd: Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
--- Begin Message --- Rick Thomas wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rick Thomas wrote: Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ an

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
I'd avoid the packages. Wordpress is basically a bunch of php scripts that get dumped inside a directory on your Apache server, plus some setup for your database. You're a lot safer just downloading the zip file and following the instructions. At least, that's how I've

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Sharon! That's good advice if all I want is wordpress. But I'm a sysadmin, and like to understand the details. So, for the time being, I'd prefer to do it from scratch if I can. If I succeed (with help from the list) I promise to write up the step-by-step procedure f

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 21, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install Hi Glen, Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the necessary other pack

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800 Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from > sudo aptitude install wordpress > on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working > wordpress website on the same machine? >

Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from sudo aptitude install wordpress on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working wordpress website on the same machine? I've read the README.Debian in /usr/share/doc/wordpress/ and the stuff in exa

Re: wordpress, again [SOLVED]

2012-06-23 Thread Glenn English
WordPress was generating bad URL/pathnames sometimes... My .htaccess was all screwed up, which broke the Permalinks. Wordpress seems to be a very nicely done piece of software -- it already knew what was wrong, and when somebody over there told me where to look, there was the text, waiting to

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 22, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I would guess that you need to enable apache mod-rewrite. > do (as root, in terminal) > a2enmod rewrite > service apache2 restart > > then tell us what happens. "Module rewrite already enabled" (I didn't do the restart.) In the admin state,

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 02:02:20PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install -- it makes > pictures on the screen and adds posts and pages. The posts > appear on the home page of the blog, and the names of the pages > show up in the menu (default

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Glenn, I notice you're still having problems, so, for what it's worth I've had Wordpress running on Debian, with Apache for years, and recently did a reinstall after getting hacked. Here's the step by step that I jotted down: 0. Caveat, this is running under Lenny

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Just a quick note on this... The above should be used (according to the > provided configuration template located in "/usr/share/doc/wordpress/ > examples/apache.conf") when you use no virtual hosts and your files are > pla

Re: wordpress, again

2012-06-22 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:02:20 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install -- it makes pictures on > the screen and adds posts and pages. The posts appear on the home page > of the blog, and the names of the pages show up in the menu (default > theme)

wordpress, again

2012-06-21 Thread Glenn English
I have a mildly working Debian WordPress install -- it makes pictures on the screen and adds posts and pages. The posts appear on the home page of the blog, and the names of the pages show up in the menu (default theme). But when I click on the name of the post, "test2" for example

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-20 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:18:52AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Tony Baldwin wrote: > > As far as "just work", this is generally the case for a lot of stuff, > > but for a web application, you have to consider that not everyone wants > > to use only wordpress as t

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Davies
Tony Baldwin wrote: > As far as "just work", this is generally the case for a lot of stuff, > but for a web application, you have to consider that not everyone wants > to use only wordpress as their webroot, which is why such things are > left to the user to configure, rathe

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 07:10:38PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Glenn English wrote: > > I've installed the squeeze Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress > > packages and there's nothing there when I point a browser at it. > > > I see the PHP info. I think I n

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > I think an entry in /etc/hosts would have been my choice, but I can see > that a secondary IP would work pretty well. What about putting it on lo > rather than eth0, though? I hadn't thought of that -- the program said it couldn't ping a FQDN. I

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Davies
nning now. I think an entry in /etc/hosts would have been my choice, but I can see that a secondary IP would work pretty well. What about putting it on lo rather than eth0, though? > WordPress is *not* trivial to set up, as it advertises. Not from the > Debian package and trying for some

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 18, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > I think what I did when trying this out the other day was this: >cd /var/www && sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress I did that part by copying to a file called wp.conf in /etc/apache2/conf.d from /usr/share/doc/wordpress/exampl

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Davies
Glenn English wrote: > I've installed the squeeze Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress > packages and there's nothing there when I point a browser at it. > I see the PHP info. I think I need something to get Apache to run > the index.php (and its friends) file in /usr/share

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Glenn English
On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: > If you're using Debian stock Wordpress package there has to be > information for its setting up under the usual path "/usr/share/doc/ > wordpress/README.Debian" :-? I got the WordPress PHP going with an alias config in

Re: wordpress/apache

2012-06-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:41:05 -0600, Glenn English wrote: (...) > I've installed the squeeze Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Wordpress packages > and there's nothing there when I point a browser at it. If I create a > PHP file named info.php (with the phpinfo() call in it) and put it i

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