I have been sitting on this for a long time and I figured it is about time that I got it out to the masses!

As many of you are aware, I have been using Slicehost for my VPS.  I decided to release my installation notes on setting up the VPS for hosting Wordpress on an Ubuntu slice.

Step One – Update Server

Edit sources.list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Remove all of the # from all commented lines.

Update and Upgrade

sudo aptitude –y update
sudo aptitude –y safe-upgrade
sudo aptitude –y full-upgrade

Configure Time Zone

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Select the time zone that you are in.

Part 2

Tomorrow, we are going to configure iptables to help increase security.

Basic Slicehost Slice Setup Series List:

  1. Part 1 - Updating Ubuntu
  2. Part 2 - Configure iptables
  3. Part 3 - Install and Configure OpenSSH
  4. Part 4 - Install nginx Web Server
  5. Part 5 - Installing MySQL
  6. Part 6 - Installing PHP5 with fastcgi
  7. Part 7 - Create the Virtual Host Website
  8. Part 8 - Install WordPress via Subversion

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