understanding initial configuration

  • Short version
    After the initial install I needed to make a symbolic link to get my site working:

    ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/www.mysite.com/wordpress
{i.e. ln -s <wordpress installation directory> <document root> }

    Details
    Before making the above link, I was seeing these errors in the apache log when I tried to access the site:

    File does not exist: /var/www/wp-content, referer: https://www.mysite.com/wordpress/

    The virtual host is set up like this:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
        Servername www.mysite.com
        ServerAlias mysite.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/www.mysite.com
        etc.

    After the initial install, /var/www had these two links in it:

    www.mysite.com => /usr/share/wordpress
wordpress => /usr/share/wordpress

    So after the creation of the link, the wordpress installation directory now has a link in it pointing back to itself:

    /usr/share/wordpress/wordpress => /usr/share/wordpress

    Making the link fixed the problem, but it feels a bit hacky, and I’d like to understand what it is about my installation that caused me to have to create it. Any insights would be appreciated.

    This was on ubuntu 10.10

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