Setup Wordpress On My Linode Server.
€8-30 EUR
Paid on delivery
Hi,
I have purchased a Linode server which I am trying to setup.
I followed:
[login to view URL]
[login to view URL] ... ur-server/
[login to view URL]
And to my great surprise, everything works at this point.
Now my goal is to install Wordpress on this server, so I logged in with SFTP, using my new user I setup in chapter two (adduser exampleuser, usermod -a -G sudo exampleuser).
First problem. I don't have permission to upload files in my folder /var/www/[login to view URL] but I figure, ok no big deal, i'll just use the root user for SFTP - and that worked. Great.
So my wordpress installation is ready and I access [login to view URL] to see the usual installation-guide for wordpress. I input all the data, my MySQL name, mysql user (I created earlier) and the password for this and I click Next.
Second issue. Apparently Wordpress can't write the [login to view URL] so I'm given a code I need to paste in a file manually. At this point I already expect things to continue going bad.
I copy+paste the code and I'm able to move forward in the setup. Finally completing it.
I log into my Wordpress backend and immediately I try uploading a file to the media gallery, as I at this point expect things to go bad, since I had to manually do the config file earlier. Just as I thought.. I don't have permission to upload anything or create the directory for upload.
I manually create the folder "uploads" and from terminal I do this command (found on this forum): chown -R www-data:www-data uploads
And that worked. Now I am able to upload files at least.
Third issue. Then I wanted to upload a theme. But of course, I wasn't able to do that either, for the first time ever in my life: "To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter your FTP credentials to proceed. "..
Frustration occurs and I don't want to deal with this anymore.
I need to know what I've missed that even made the First issue occur in the first place? And I want to know how to fix that + the other errors. My goal is to setup wordpress on my Linode.
This should take no less than 5 minutes for someone to figure out. I have attached a document to show all the commands I've been running to setup my server. Perhaps you see what's missing.
Project ID: #6615606
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The issues are with the permissions. I would suggest creating a new user and assigning that as the user to run the webserver or change permissions of the existing files and folders. Lets discuss and get this sorted
Hi I can fix your both problems SSH root access is requied ************************************************************************************
Hi There, Appreciate you all efforts, but you have made big mistake for using root account which is not recommended in production environment. we just give this project to us and re-Install your Linode server. we wi More
The issues are because of permissions. Uploading the iles as root is the cause for all these issues. I will help fix them right away. Looking forward to your response.
I'm Shijo V Jose a Linux server administrator with two plus years of experience. During my career as a server administrator I've worked in a hosting support company and hence I've worked with number of hosting companie More
Hi, You need to make sure all your permissions are set correctly. I can go through your install for you and correct any permissions or other mistakes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Derek
Hi.. all your problems are in folder permissions. You need to set them with this command chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www this will let webserver upload and create files on www folder and depper levels
Hello, The problem isn't from your configuration, but i'm sure you're about trying to install the Apache2 with mod php or suphp. I've 2 suggestion for your issue : 1. Change the Apache2's PHP module into fastc More
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You had some great details there. I have setup many Wordpress sites recently... Just finished setting up an OS X server for someone and then installed Wordpress. I have experienced many of the issues you have now. I am More
Can setup your linode server with wordpress and all other prerequisites. Can also install a control panel to manage your linode and add more domains/websites, databases, setup email accounts, ftp accounts etc.
