wordpress debian package

  • hey everyone,
    im just trying to get the wordpress debian package up and running on my local server to give it a whirl but i cant even get started on it at all.
    the package has installed fine and i can see all of the files in /usr/share/wordpress/ but the path wordpress/wp-admin/ or any other variation cant be found by the browser when i try to get access to the pages.
    Is there a specific address I should be typing in to start the setup process or have I missed out some part of the apache config?
    Im running decian unstable on an x86 machine with php 4.3.4, apache 1.3.
    cheers for the help
    c.

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  • I also got WordPress package but as my localhost is located at /var/www/ I had to move WP directory to there. Check the DocumentRoot directive in your Apache configuration file httpd.conf.

    Thread Starter cframe

    (@cframe)

    cheers, i thought it might be something like that but phpsysinfo is in the same root folder and it works ok…
    ill have another check through httpd.conf anyway though, cheers.

    I just did ln -s /usr/share/wordpress/
    Seems to work so far and I don’t have to mess with what debian expects to be installed.

    If you want to use wordpress as the root directory but not change your apache root directory in httpd.conf you can do cp -sR /usr/share/wordpress* /var/www/.

    That sounds almost exactly like the problem I just had. Hopefully this is a solution for you. I found that I needed to add an extra section to the relevant Apache config (i.e. add an extra section to that given as the Debian example config).

    In addition to the <Directory> section for /usr/share/wordpress given in the example config, you also need a <Directory> section for /etc/wordpress . I used the same options, but they probably need to be tweaked a bit. Hope that helps…

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