Wordpress Installation

Hi,

This is my first time using a site with ISPConfig 3. If a domain has an existing non WordPress wesbsite (written in PHP), and I use the ASP Installer to install WordPress. Will it overwrite the current site completely?

What is the correct way to install Wordpress on ISPConfig 3?

cheers,

 

Thanks!

 

Hi,

Just to clarify, if I want to start the site from scratch. Do I still use the method you describe above or do I use the APS installer?

 

Hello, I found comfortable to have the chance to install all automatically. Yes, Wordpress was dated but its update always worked well. Is there a chance to have back packages repositories or a way to configure my personal link into ispconfig interface (for example downloading last zip wordpress package).
Thank you
Antonio

 

Thank you very much, right now I re-enabled APS and it works really well. What a pity having such a dismission. Anyway, I will have a look at Softaculous and install it. Thank you very much for your reply.

Antonio

 

you could install wp-cli on the server.
if you create an ssh user for the account, and ssh in as that user and go to the webroot, all you need to do is run:

Code:

$ wp core download
# Install WordPress in 5 seconds
$ wp core install --url=example.com --title=Example --admin_user=supervisor --admin_password=strongpassword [email protected]
Success: WordPress installed successfully.

# Install WordPress without disclosing admin_password to bash history
$ wp core install --url=example.com --title=Example --admin_user=supervisor [email protected] --prompt=admin_password < admin_password.txt

just remember to add wp-cli to the jailkit configuration if using chroot'd ssh accounts.

i believe you can even get away with just wp core download and then browse to the site to continue the install process and provide db details etc, but i never bother with that, i do it all from the cli.

 

Hi there. I need to set up a wordpress website on a sub-directory of my existing website, which is hosted on ispconfig. I found this guide which seems very comprehensive. Do y'all think it will still work for the latest ISPCONFIG ?
https://mindwatering.com/SupportRef.nsf/webpg/BA6E414230B842D88525800D0054FDD6

 

do not follow that guide unless you want your site hacked within minutes, those file / folder permissions are way off.

just create the subdirectory. and create the new database and db user (on the same site in ispconfig)
install wordpress directly into the subdirectory as normal.

edit the .htaccess file in the subdirectory afterwards.
most of it will already exist, just make sure the rewritebase and rewriterule point to the subdirectory.

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /your-subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /your-subdirectory/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

 

Thanks for your reply. The real issue I have here is that i want everything on my machine to be easily updatable at the click of a button using the apt-get update command. So, I ideally, I want to install wordpress via the apt-get package. This installs wordpress in the directory /usr/share/wordpress.
What I really need to do is to be able to create a link in my website under ispconfig which points to /usr/share/wordpress. Then, I will end up with the wordpress website in a sub-directory of my existing website, but then, it will also be updatable via apt-get. I have tried this , but ISPCONFIG does not allow me to follow the link. Any suggestions ?
I was thinking of doing 2 installs. One i install with APT. Then I look at the directory structure and permissions. After, I manually install a second wordpress via ISPCONFIG. Then, I look at the location of those files and the permissions and work out how to map the one set of files onto the other one.
I don't know much about wordpress, but I do know that it runs using the PHP in your apache 2 installation.

 

don't bother with apt-get for wordpress.
especially if you're going to have multiple wordpress sites under different user/client accounts, a central wordpress with symlinks from the client webfolder will be a nightmare. possibly with wp multisite and no client vhosts, but i'd still expect issues.

if its just a private server, with a few of your own sites, you might get away with it, as soon as clients get involved, or you need more than just a couple of sites, it'll become a mess.

they'll be plugin incompatibilities, some plugins/ themes won't work without the latest wp release, php etc, some plugins / themes won't work with the latest versions yet, some won't ever work with the latest wp / php.

plus the wordpress version you update to using apt-get will always be way behind the actual latest wp release, and it won't apply plugin or theme updates anyway.

just install wordpress manually. or via softaculous or similar. you can configure wordpress to update itself and all plugins / themes automatically (i personally don't like this, i don't like any software getting updated at completely random times with no warning)
or just update everything from the wordpress backend, it's still only a few mouse clicks. or install wp-cli and write a little update script, then you can schedule regular, fixed update times via cron. or use a multi wordpress management system like managewp or infinitewp

 

I created a terminal user for my website, I logged in as that user, and then copied the wordpress that I wgetted into a sub directory of my website. However, the installer doesn't work. I get a 404 error except if I visit the "static" readme.html page, which I can see. If I just type in the web address of the new directory, I get a white screen, which I suppose is the famous "white screen of death". Where do I find the wordpress error log to diagnose problems ? How do i turn on error logging ? FYI, I checked that I had php enabled in my website settings.

 

I don't think I mentioned I am running Ubuntu 20.04 lts