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Wordpress is a free and open source content management system that is widely popular. This page will provide you with detailed instructions on how to install Wordpress using DomTool and AFS permissions.

This will guide you through downloading the latest stable version via Subversion, hardening permissions in the filesystem, and making a Domtool entry for the site.

1. Get the Source

If you have the OpenAFS client configured, you can set up Wordpress on your local system for the most part. The setup can (naturally) be performed on our shell server as well.

fsr setacl . system:anyuser none
fsr sa . $USER.daemon rlk

The first command makes it so that no one that you do not allow (except administrators) may access your Wordpress directory. The second command limits the privileges that the server software have over the directory to just reading, listing files, and executing code.

svn co https://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/$VERSION .

mkdir wp-content/uploads
fs sa wp-content/uploads $USER.daemon write

2. Configure Wordpress

# in wp-config.php
define('DB_NAME', '$USER_$DB');
define('DB_USER', '$USER');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'XXXXX your mysql password XXXXX');
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql');

# visit https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ to generate cookie salts, and copy/paste result over:
define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

You should now have a working weblog.

3. Enabling the Plugin Manager

To use the plugin manager you have to allow your daemon user to write to the wp-content directory in your installation.

fsr sa wp-content/ $USER.daemon write

The way Wordpress tests if it can directly write files is incompatible with openafs1, so you'll need to force it to directly write the file system by adding a line to your wp-config.php:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

4. Tips

4.1. Using Jetpack Without A Wordpress.com Account

You can use many of the features of Jetpack without a wordpress.com account by enable development mode in your wp-config.php:

define( 'JETPACK_DEV_DEBUG', true);


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  1. It creates a file and then check that the UID is the same as the current process; at HCoop, this is not true since the file owner will be your daemon user which has a different UID. The owner UID check is pointless, and just makes our lives harder (1)

MemberManual/WebApplications/WordPress (last edited 2022-01-25 07:35:03 by JesseShumway)