(Part of the detailed Step-by-Step Installation Guide for setting up the Server)

The Wordpress Blog has an out-dated Ubuntu packge, so we install from source.

sudo addgroup wordpressadmins

cd /opt

sudo wget http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.1.2.tar.gz

sudo tar zxvf wordpress-2.1.2.tar.gz

sudo ln -s wordpress-2.1.2 wordpress

Add plugins desired by Facilitators:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

sudo chgrp -R wordpressadmins /opt/wordpress

Configure MySQL:

Configure Apache:

sudo vi /etc/apache2/conf/sites-available/wordpress

cd /etc/apache2/conf/sites-active

sudo ln -s /sites-available/wordpress

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload 

Continue with the rest of the detailed Step-by-Step Installation Guide