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This is part eight of our series on configuring a Slicehost slice.  We are finally at the last part of this series.  Here goes!

Step Eight – Install WordPress via Subversion

Install Subversion

Using Subversion is a much easier way to install Wordpress.  Install Subversion with this command:

sudo aptitude install subversion

Install WordPress

Move your working directory to the root of the directory that you want to install Wordpress in:

cd /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/public

Install the latest stable version of Wordpress:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7 .

We’re done.  Now you can connect to your website and walk through the standard Wordpress installation.

Conclusion

I hope that you found this to be a useful series.  I have put this entire series into a PDF document (along with a few extras) so that you can have a nice printed version available.

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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This is part seven of our series on configuring a Slicehost slice.  Today is going to be another heavy day.

Step Seven – Create the Website

Create Directory Structure

mkdir -p /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/{public,private,log,backup}

where <username> is your username in the VPS and <domain.name> is the name of the domain that you are creating.

Create Default Index Page

In /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/public/, create an index.php file as a placeholder.  I generally create the standard phpinfo page:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Create the vhost File

Open /etc/nginx/sites-available/<domain.name> in a text editor as root:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/<domain.name>

where <domain.name> is the website that you are creating.

Add the following as the content, replacing <domain.name> and <username> accordingly:

server {

        listen   80;
        server_name <domain.name>;
    #rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.<domain.name> permanent;

        access_log /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/log/access.log;
        error_log /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/log/error.log;

        location / {

                root   /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/public/;
                index  index.php;
                # wordpress fancy rewrites
                        if (-f $request_filename) {
                            break;
                        }
                        if (-d $request_filename) {
                            break;
                        }
                        rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;

                }

        location ~ .*\.php[345]?$ {
                include /etc/nginx/fcgi.conf;
                fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:10005;
                fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/public$fastcgi_script_name;
                }

           }


server {

        listen   80;
        server_name www.<domain.name>;

        access_log /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/log/access.log;
        error_log /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/log/error.log;

        location / {

        root   /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/public/;
                index  index.php;
        # wordpress fancy rewrites
            if (-f $request_filename) {
                    break;
                }
                if (-d $request_filename) {
                    break;
                }
                rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;

                }

    location ~ .*\.php[345]?$ {
        include    /etc/nginx/fcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:10005;
        fastcgi_index    index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/<username>/public_html/<domain.name>/public$fastcgi_script_name;
        }

            }

Enable the Website

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/<domain.name> /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/<domain.name>

Restart nginx

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start

Part 8

Tomrrow is the final installment on this series. We are finally going to get Wordpress up and running.

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

Related articles:

• Understanding the Different Types of Web Hosting
• Advantages of Sharing a Virtual Private Server
• To Succeed With Your Blog, Use Successful Hosting
• What is a Virtual Private Server?

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This is part six of our series on configuring a Slicehost slice. Today, we get into the meat of things. Put on your propeller hat because things get pretty geeky!

Step Six – Install PHP5 with fastcgi

Install PHP5

Create /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi

and add this for its content:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: php-fastcgi
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start and stop php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode
# Description: Start and stop php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode
### END INIT INFO

# Do NOT "set -e"

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode"
NAME=php-fastcgi
DAEMON=/usr/bin/php-cgi
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
PHP_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# If the daemon is not enabled, give the user a warning and then exit,
# unless we are stopping the daemon
if [ "$START" != "yes" -a "$1" != "stop" ]; then
log_warning_msg "To enable $NAME, edit /etc/default/$NAME and set START=yes"
exit 0
fi

# Process configuration
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
DAEMON_ARGS="-q -b $FCGI_HOST:$FCGI_PORT -c $PHP_CONFIG_FILE"

do_start()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON \
--background --make-pidfile --chuid $EXEC_AS_USER --startas $DAEMON -- \
$DAEMON_ARGS \
|| return 2
}

do_stop()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE > /dev/null # --name $DAEMON
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
# and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
# If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
# that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
# needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to
# sleep for some time.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
[ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don’t delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}
case "$1" in
start)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
restart|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac