Allen's Open Source IT Solutions: [CMS] WordPress Installation Guide on Ubuntu 12.04

No more description, Just do it.

First of all, REMEMBER TO INSTALL MYSQL-SERVER unless you have mysql-server(local or remote will do) already.

1. a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server

2. a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:~$ sudo apt-get install wordpress
3. a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:~$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress /var/www/wordpress


a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:~$ cd /usr/share/doc/wordpress [You could ignore this step. The content of README.Debian tell us what to do.] JUMP to point 5.
    a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:/usr/share/doc/wordpress$ ls
    changelog.Debian.gz copyright examples NEWS.Debian.gz README.Debian
    a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:/usr/share/doc/wordpress$ less README.Debian

#### Quick setup

Setup apache to point to /usr/share/wordpress. See the examples/apache.conf

Database setup can be done with the help of a script in examples/setup-mysql
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Good point! Let's setup the Database by examples/setup-mysql

Before that, here is a bug that would interrupt the configuration if you did not create a "debian.cnf" file before creating database.

4. a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:/usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples$ sudo touch /etc/mysql/debian.cnf

5. a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:/$ sudo bash /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples/setup-mysql -n wordpress [your wordpress IP address]

PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.027 ms

--- localhost ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.027/0.027/0.027/0.000 ms
/etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php written
Trying to create upload directory: /var/www/wp-uploads/localhost
Setting up permissions
Goto http://localhost to setup Wordpress
a00ylc00@WP-ubuntu1204:~$/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Browse http://localhost/wordpress on your browser.

Web Installation.