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okay so as it apparent I have just got a wordpress server running, this was easier said than done!

To do this I am using the LAMP stack, I have built a Fedora10 ESXi Virtual Machine,. 

The install instructions on the wordpress site are really very good and Fedroa 10 even has the wordpress software in the install list.. so I thought this would all be pretty simple..  but there were a couple of fish hooks, funny how they seem very minor once you know what they are but I suppose that is the essence of this.

The first one was that you have to get the mysql database at least alive before you can even get phpMyAdmin to work, the missing bit is :

mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

I know seems so simple, but perhaps I am stupid but this is a must do … then you can go into phpMyAdmin and create the empty database and the user.

The only other one was that I started with an Apache server, then installed wordpress, of course I did all this on a local name name, then pointed the dns of my external domain at it, adjusted the firewall and tried to make the website the main website or the root website, of course this didn’t work.. after a lot of head scratching I discoverd I had to do two things .. create a symlink to the /usr/share/wordpress location fedora had installed wordpress in and then change the httpd.conf file to have the website referred like this..

<Directory “/var/www/wibble”>
DocumentRoot “/var/www/wibble”

However it still didn’t work.. until I cleared out the database and ran the install.php again from the correct domain name.

So its up and going, I will play with it over the next few weeks and who knows may even get addicted, I am totally addicted to mediawiki at work for documenting everything in my job.