• Apache
• PHP 4.1
• MySQL 3.23.23

Download the latest WordPress:

# cd /home/www/dev.sluug.org/
# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz -O wordpress.tar.gz

Unpack the program:

# tar xfz wordpress.tar.gz
# cd wordpress/

Set ownership of the directory so Apache can use it:

# chown -R www-data:www-data .

Create the MySQL database (replace $WORDPRESS_MYSQL_USER with the real username, and $WORDPRESS_MYSQL_PWD with the real password):

# mysqladmin create wordpress
# mysql
	GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO $WORDPRESS_MYSQL_USER@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '$WORDPRESS_MYSQL_PWD';
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
	EXIT;

Tell WordPress about the database it will connect to.

# cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Edit wp-config.php and change the following settings:

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
define('DB_USER', '$WORDPRESS_MYSQL_USER');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '$WORDPRESS_MYSQL_PWD');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Remove some files that aren't needed after installing:

# rm license.txt readme.html wp-config-sample.php wp-admin/import*.php

Run the installation script by accessing http://dev.sluug.info/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in a web browser.

Weblog title: Saint Louis UNIX Users Group
Your email: webmaster@sluug.org

Record the admin password that is generated. It will be needed to log in to administer the application.

Log in as admin with the newly generated password.

Options / General

Weblog title: Saint Louis UNIX Users Group
Tagline: Open Systems, Open Standards, Open Source
Weeks in the calendar should start on: Sunday

Options / Permalinks

Structure: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

There are several things that I consider to be problematic trying to use WordPress as a CMS for general content:

• No way to have the default page be a static page. It's always the latest blog entry.
• Any time you create a new page or post, the program has to rewrite .htaccess, and adds a lot of mod_rewrite entries. I mean a lot.
• List of pages doesn't seem to honor the ordering in the list on the right.

Test some other blogs:

• b2evolution
• TextPattern
• Serendipity