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I've got a LAMP server available from http://91.xxx.xx.xx/ (just an example IP address), and I'd like to install Wordpress there.

I've gone as far as doing a simple sudo apt-get install wordpress to install Wordpress, but I'm not too sure about the set of best-practice steps after that.

I've read the documentation to install Wordpress in the Ubuntu wiki, but it is out-of-date. Also I couldn't figure it out from the /usr/share/doc/wordpress/README.Debian provided in the wordpress package.

Here are some additional notes of what I'm trying to do with the site:

I'd appreciate any help with the clear set of recommended steps after the initial installation of the wordpress package to get the site up and running, as there's lots of info out there, but it seems to be out-of-date.

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    – Ringtail
    Feb 28, 2012 at 18:57
  • Similar issue. Installed from Synaptic and expected some sort of menu item to GUI to administer something. Why provide a Synaptic package without adding a menu item, leaving the user to have to start googling for how to get started at step 0? I also found a "readme" (readme.html, not readme.debian), the first thing is says is to go download WP and extract it, etc. Oh. So glad I just installed from a package.
    – user67562
    May 31, 2012 at 23:05

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Using packages from ubuntu repos is a best way to get tested software but also be informed that it might take some time before you get new package updates and these updates usually come with new ubuntu versions. Okay so let's get started.

  1. follow the link < http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz> to download latest stable wordpress package.

  2. deflate (uncompress) its content to your web server's root folder. Usually /var/www/. Ensure that in the your web servers root folder you can find the following folders just to be sure wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes

  3. then go to your server address and begin the 5 minute install. You said yours is at http://91.xxx.xxx.xxx

  4. if later on you want wordpress in another folder deflate the wordpress package to /var/www/blog if you want it to appear at http://91.xxx.xxx.xxx/blog

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    Thanks for your comment. As I was saying, though, I want to install from packages, not from wordpress.org, and I'd also like to know the steps following the installation, i.e. what's the recommended way to set up apache so that the wordpress instance appears at 91.xxx.xx.xx and if there are any symlinks I need to create, etc. Your answer, although I appreciate your help (thanks!) does not answer any of those. Oct 12, 2011 at 8:42
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I know this thread is a bit old but I still respond and share my thoughts since this is the only post I've ever found on askubuntu.com about utilizing wordpress from apt-get. After a few hours of try and error, I concluded that we better use source install from wordpress.org rather than using Ubuntu binary package from apt-get. My reasonings:

  • Official doc did not work out of the box as of today (2/09/2014 while its last update was 1/31/2014, about a week ago). In my case I got an error and needed a workaround [1].

  • Even though I was able to run wordpress installed from apt-get with the workaround I mentioned above, I ended up finding the working version was 3.3.1 (as package.ubuntu.com says so too for Precise), when the latest available version on the server that's installed from source was 3.8.x, and the Dashboard thinks it's the latest. I couldn't find a way to tell it the actual latest version is way more advanced. So here I agree with the advantage in this comment.

My environment; Ubuntu 12.04 Server on Amazon EC2

[1] Error on browser when accessing http://YOURDOMAIN/wordpress

Neither /etc/wordpress/config-ec2-54-201-233-60.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.php nor /etc/wordpress/config-us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.php could be found.
Ensure one of them exists, is readable by the webserver and contains the right password/username.

Workaround: Putting aside two files by like

$ /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php config-localhost.php.org && sudo mv wp-config.php wp-config.php.org
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  • I mostly agree with this but there is one advantage to installing the package anyway which is that it will also pull all of the dependencies for WordPress. You can use sudo apt-get install -s wordpress to get a list of all dependencies without installing it though.
    – krowe
    Dec 13, 2021 at 9:33

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