Robby’s Rambles

Sitting here watching Planet Earth HD, they showed this place called the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia.  It looks like something from another planet.  Seems like a good picture of what the earth must have looked like all over, some few billion years ago.  Salts and pools of sulfuric acid abound.  Check it out!

This wordpress thingy wasn’t all that bad.  Using it on a SliceHost.com slice, installed while watching Planet Earth HD.  Good series btw. 

‘Bout all it took on the Fedora10 image was a little yumming:

1. download wordpress.  Get on the console of your webserver and issue the command wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz (assuming you have wget installed…if not ‘yum install wget’)
2. I then renamed the file “latest.tar.gz” to wordpress.tar.gz
3. then do a ‘tar -xvzf wordpress.tar.gz’ and you’ll get a directory called “wordpress”
4. yum install httpd
5. yum install php php-mysql
6. yum install php-gd
7. yum install mysql mysql-server
8. service httpd start
9. service mysqld start
10. mysqladmin -u root password mynewpassword
11. mysql -u root -p
    1. mysql> delete from mysql.user where not (host=”localhost” and user=”root”);
    2. mysql> flush privileges;
    3. mysql>use mysql
    4. mysql>select * from user       do this to check and make sure that you only see the root account associated with localhost
    5. mysql>exit
12. mysql -u root -p
    1. mysql>create database wordpress
    2. mysql>grant all privileges on wordpress.* TO ”wordpress”@”localhost” identified by “some_password”;
    3. mysql>flush privileges
    4. mysql>exit
13. Then you’ll need to edit your wp-config-sample.php file according to the instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
14. Then copy all the files in your untarred “wordpress” directory to /var/www/html (if you want the site at the root of your website.

Hmm…can’t think of anything right now that I missed.  We’ll see how much I like this thing.

-Robby :-P