You see the result here 😉 From Performance viewpoints I can trustfully say that the RaspberryPi 2 has enough resources to manage Apache server, mysql and ownCloud – my current setup.

Here is my webserver:

And now to the main task: installing a WordPress blog!

First of all – if you haven’t done it yet – install the following packages:

>> apt-get install apache2 mysqlserver

During the installation you will be asked for a mysql password, you will need it later in the ‘creating the database’ subsection. More Information concerning the Apache webserver can be found here.

• Go to the WordPress site, download the zip-file and store it on your RaspberryPi or download it directly:

  >> cd /var/www
  >> wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
  >> mv latest.zip wordpress.zip

• Move and extract the file in the Apache web directory:

  >> mv wordpress.zip /var/www/
  >> cd /var/www
  >> unzip wordpress.zip
  >> chown -R www-data:www-data wordpress/

• The next step is creating the database:

  >> mysql -u root -p
  >> Enter password: MYSQLPASSWORD
  >> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
  >> CREATE USER  'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'userpassword';
  >> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'userpassword';
  >> flush privileges;
  >> exit;

• Now open your webbrowser and type in the following URL (depends on the name of your RaspberryPi which has been set via the main RaspberryPi setup): http://raspberrypi/wordpress/
• You should now see the wordpress configuration site, there you should follow the installation wizard.Database: wordpress
  User: wordpress
  Password: your set password
  Host: localhost
• Congratulation! You have successfully installed WordPress!

Usefull hints:

• for directory browsing in the command shell I use the MidnightCommander. I also prefer the internal editor which can be found in the configuration menu.

  >> apt-get install mc
  >> mc

• Change the default webpage directory of your Apache webserver:>> mcBrowse to /etc/apache2/sites-available/Open default [press F4] and change the following paramters:

  ...
  DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress
  ...
  <Directory /var/www/wordpress>
  ...

• Save and close the file [F10] Restart the webserver. It should look like this:

• Restarting the Apache webserver

  >> service apache2 restart

Congratulation! You have successfully installed WordPress!