Running Wordpress

Appserver.io is a pretty cool and sophiscated infrastructure fully built upon the

PHP stack. This makes it truely easy to develop and extend the platform.

Appserver.io comes with an built in webserver module with PHP-FPM therefore it is

possible to install any PHP-App you like and run it on that platform. The following

guide shows you how easy it is to install appserver.io on a Mac and run Wordpress

on it.

Prerequirements: Up and running installation of MySQL

You will need a running installation of appserver.io (>= Version 1.0.0-rc3). If you

are new to this project you can easily download and follow the installation guide for

your specific OS.

After the setup has finished the appserver.io is up and running and you can call

the welcome page with

http://localhost:9080/

By default, appserver.io is configured to run on port 9080 in order to not to affect

any existing webserver installations. You can easily change that in the

/opt/appserver/etc/appserver.xml just by going to section

<server name="http" ...

and change the port within that section for example to 80. After that restart the

appserver.io which can be done with the following command.

sudo /opt/appserver/sbin/appserverctl restart

Of course there is no need to change the port if you only want to check out the

capabilities of this tremendous platform.

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Installation:You are now set to install and run your application on appserver.io. For that we

download the latest wordpress release from wordpress.org.

To go ahead and install wordpress we have now two options. The easiest way is to

install wordpress without creating a vhost. Therefore you just unpack the wordpress

source into your Webrootfolder which in case of the appserver is always the

webapps folder underneath /opt/appserver/webapps/. In that folder you will still find

the already installed example app and of course the welcome page. We are just

creating a folder with name „wordpress“ and unpacking the source there.

After successfully unpacking the wordpress sources you are able to use the

wordpress webinstaller just by opening a browser and calling the URL

http://127.0.0.1:9080/wordpress/. Before you step over the installation you should

correct the rights of the wordpress folder to ensure wordpress is able to write the

configuration.

chmod -R 775 /opt/appserver/webapps/wordpress/

Now you are free to step over the installation wizard and for that it is necessary to

create a database on your local running MySQL. To create a database you can use

the MySQL command line or just use another database administration tool like

phpMyAdmin. Of course you can also install phpMyAdmin on appserver.io. Just read

the appropriate tutorial.

To create the database by the command line just use the following line

mysql -uroot -p

Now you are on the MySQL command line and it is pretty easy to create an empty

database. Just use the following command.

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

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Now you are ready to install wordpress. Just follow to steps on the install wizard.

If you want to use a virtual host to run wordpress simply follow the steps below.

As with any other Webserver using a vhost you first have to add the domain you'd

like to use in your hosts file.

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Add the following lines there:

127.0.0.1 wordpress.local::1 wordpress.localfe80::1%lo0 wordpress.local

Afterwards you have to add the vhost to the webserver config of the appserver

which you also find in /opt/appserver/etc/appserver/conf.d/virtual-

hosts.xml. There is already an example virtual host configuration available there.

Put the following configuration within the tag.

<virtualHost name="wordpress.local"> <params> <param name="admin" type="string">info@appserver.io</param> <param name="documentRoot" type="string">webapps/wordpress</param> </params></virtualHost>

After adding the Vhost you have to restart the appserver and you should start

with the installation like described at the beginning of this tutorial

sudo /opt/appserver/sbin/appserverctl restart

If you alread installed wordpress and now you want to use the configured

filename you just have to change the siteurl in the settings menu of wordpress.

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