Famous 5 minute installation of Wordpress with OpenSolaris 2008.05

So, if I had to setup a blogging web site, where would I go other than the favorite - WordPress. I followed their famous 5 minute installation steps within OpenSolaris 2008.05 and here we go.

* OpenSolaris 2008.05 is a LiveCD based distribution . So, if you need a AMP stack, you can get this on demand by  running the following command

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec pkg install amp

* Now, you can initialize and configure Apache and MySQL service by doing  something like

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/sbin/svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/database/mysql.xml

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/sbin/svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/network/http-apache22.xml 

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm enable network/http:apache22

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm enable database/mysql:version_50

* Now, let us configure a Wordpress database within MySQL database. So, let us do something like

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/mysql/bin/mysql -u root
 

here is a sample output that you would expect to see...

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/mysql/bin/mysql -u root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql>

Now , let us create a new database and assign a user to this.

  mysql> create database wordpress;

  mysql> select database wordpress;

  mysql> grant all privileges on wordpress.* to wp@localhost identified by 'wp';

  mysql> flush privileges;

  mysql> quit;

* At this point, we have created a new database 'wordpress' with a user 'wp' and with password  'wp' assigned to manage this database. Well, not a whole lot secure but a good starting point though.

* Now, you can download WordPress 2.5.1 from here unpack it to /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs - default apache document root directory.

* Now, copy /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php to /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/wodpresswp-config.php and edit the first four lines of the file to reflect the just now configured database name , user name and password.

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: cd /tmp

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip 

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: cd /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs/w 

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec  unzip /tmp/wordpress-2.5.1.zip

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec cp wordpress/wp-config-sample.php wordpress/wp-config.php

pfexec vi wordpress/wp-config.php and edit this file - first four lines and provide your database name, user name and password . In my case, wordpress/wp-config.php file looks something like 

 
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');    // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'wp');     // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wp'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
 

* That's it . you are now ready to host your blog site . You should be able to reach your blog site by accessing http://localhost/wordpress

Simple, huh . Ah , one last thing - If you would like to take this site into production, you might want to enable to APC cache - which is integrated within OpenSolaris Web(AMP) Stack but not enabled as default. You could do this by editing /etc/php5/5.2.4/conf.d/apc.ini and for more APC related settings , please refer here. 

Note: Once you enable APC, please remember to  restart Apache service for this change to take into effect

[sriramn@sriram-laptop]: pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm restart network/http:apache22

Hope, you find this useful. Feel free to ping me back if you have any suggestions or issues. Alternatively, you could visit OpenSolaris forum

Posted at 02:01PM May 05, 2008 by natarajan in Web Stack  |  Comments[1]

Getting Ruby or AMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP) on OpenSolaris 2008.05

Today, Sun officially released a distribution - OpenSolaris 2008.05 based on a 3 year long open source effort happening with Solaris at  Open Solaris web site. You can catch more on this release from here.

Now, if you are web developer interested in figuring out how it is useful to you, here is what you might like

* Ruby binaries can be downloaded and installed with the single command

   Open a command line terminal window and run the following command

    pfexec pkg install ruby

   Now, you can Ruby specific components by doing some thing like

    pfexec /usr/ruby/1.8/bin/gem install <component name>
 

* MySQL or PHP developers can get their binaries (again from a command line window) by doing some thing like

    pfexec pkg install amp

    The Apache, PHP and MySQL binaries are available under /usr/apache2 , /usr/php5 and /usr/mysql directories respectively.  The corresponding configuration files are found under /etc/apache2 , /etc/mysql and /etc/php5 directories respectively.

* Once you have successfully install MySQL or Apache , you will need to initialize the SMF service.  The following command does the initialization job for you. 

    pfexec /usr/sbin/svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/network/http-apache22.xml

    pfexec /usr/sbin/svccfg import /var/svc/manifest/application/database/mysql.xml

If in case, you wonder what is SMF - you might wanna check out Service Management Facility project page for more information on how this is useful to you. 

* Now, you can start these Apache and MySQL services by doing something like

    pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm enable network/http:apache22

    pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm enable database/mysql:version_50 

Similarly, the way to stop these services, if you need to , you would do 

pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm disable network/http:apache22

pfexec /usr/sbin/svcadm disable database/mysql:version_50 

 * PHP runtime is configured by default within default Apache Service. So, you should be able to deploy PHP applications by simply writing a PHP application within Web Server document root directory - /var/apache2/2.2/htdocs.

That is all you need to do to get your web site up and running. If you want to do Joomla or MediaWiki, you can simply unpack these tar ball within the web server document root directory (/var/apache2/2.2/htdocs) and hit their index page . This is all you need to get them up and running.

Does this sound simple enough for you to try it out ?

Now, if you need to read more information on this , please check out the Getting Starting Guide from here . Kindly, give OpenSolaris 2008.05 a spin and let us as to what you think and how we can improve it

Posted at 12:49PM May 05, 2008 by natarajan in Web Stack  |  Comments[0]