Comments on GeekyBits³: Installing Wordpress on OpenBSD

Hi, Just like to tell you that this piece of info ...

2009-10-02T13:04:26.783+10:00

Hi, Just like to tell you that this piece of info is one quick to the point, no nonsense, workable and effective way as fast as possible. It worked for me and thank you for the effort. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for your detailed instructions. It was v...

2009-03-04T03:08:00.000+11:00

Thank you for your detailed instructions. It was very helpful although I skipped some steps. My setup is OpenBSD 4.3 based.

I was able to get my Wordpress up and running without much trouble.

Your guides are awesome. I have worked in IT for 2...

2009-02-19T05:11:00.000+11:00

Your guides are awesome. I have worked in IT for 20+ years and try to keep my skills current. Your guides are a huge help in that effort and MUCH MUCH appreciated. From the for what its worth dept., the Loadmodule instruction has an unfortunate CR/LF in it that took me awhile to figure out. As a debugging technique starting apache from the forground really helped. I think the command is;
# /usr/sbin/apachectl start

Thank you so much for these guides.

great guide.. Saved me many hours and headaches !

2008-11-20T14:43:00.000+11:00

great guide.. Saved me many hours and headaches !

Gday,Any chance of an update to your tutorial as t...

2008-05-16T08:48:00.000+10:00

Gday,

Any chance of an update to your tutorial as the release of 4.3 has killed bits of it.

Thanks for any help

Kim

Thanks for putting in the effort to write these, p...

2008-02-24T08:20:00.000+11:00

Thanks for putting in the effort to write these, please keep this up - one of the best sets of OpenBSD tips I've found for ages!

Thanks Nice Howto I install wordpress on OpenBSD 4...

2008-01-30T02:59:00.000+11:00

Thanks
Nice Howto I install wordpress on OpenBSD 4.2 with Gnome
I would be grateful if you write simple and nice Howto about install Snort on OpenBSD 4.2 , I found one but it was not good and nice and was not clear/

Dear Kris,First of all thank you for this nice des...

2007-12-26T08:22:00.000+11:00

Dear Kris,

First of all thank you for this nice description on how to install wordpress within OpenBSD.

I installed Wordpress on OpenBSD 4.2 and had the following issues:
- the command "pkg_add -i wordpress" failed due to the fact that libexpat in OpenBSD 4.2 is packed within xbase42.tgz, which I, unfortunately didn't have installed. The solution is thus to install xbase42.tgz which is described here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#AddFileSet
Somewhere on the internet I found that libexpat will again be part of baseXX.tgz from OpenBSD 4.3, so in the future it will work again.
- if you point your browser to "http://your-server.address.tld/one/wp-admin/install.php" it keeps complaining about not being able to access the database. This can be solved with "ln -f /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock /var/www/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock" as described in the third comment.

Keep up the good work!

Kind regards,

Asim

I'm really glad you managed to get it working, Wel...

2007-09-19T13:32:00.000+10:00

I'm really glad you managed to get it working, Well done!
It's an interesting work around; running the MySQL socket from inside the webserver. I've never had to do that before.
In the interests of learning; Do you know why your setup required it?

This fixed it:ln -f /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock /var...

2007-09-12T14:29:00.000+10:00

This fixed it:

ln -f /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock /var/www/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

It's hard to say, without seeing more information,...

2007-09-10T17:50:00.000+10:00

It's hard to say, without seeing more information, what the problem could be.

A couple of things to try would be:
1. Checking your firewall rules.
2. Tring to make a different database and re-editing the Wordpress file (wp-config.php) to see if there is an error there.
(I've actually found problems with naming databases certain things, I don't know why)
3. Also you could try downloading Wordpress again, I have twice now got a dodgy download.

Other than these things, I can only suggest that you email me your log files, and any other information you deem important and I'll see if I can figure anything further out.

I am having lots of issues getting this to work. I...

2007-09-10T11:20:00.000+10:00

I am having lots of issues getting this to work. I am using vhost with two domains (only one is actually using mysql). I can connect with the database with mysql -u user, and with a php script with php -f test.php (ran on localhost) which connects to the database and prints OK if it worked. But when I try from the web it fails, and also fails if I try host.tld/wp-admin/install.php (says failed to connect to DB). I have done mostly everything you have done not sure what is causing the issue.

No worries, I'm really glad it helped :)

2007-09-04T21:39:00.000+10:00

No worries, I'm really glad it helped :)

nice guide, clear and concise. Manage to get wordp...

2007-08-28T20:04:00.000+10:00

nice guide, clear and concise. Manage to get wordpress up in no time with this.