Setting up a WordPress Blog on red-bean
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:author: bbum@mac.com and sussman@red-bean.com

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Instructions largely derived from
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.

* Download the latest production version of WordPress.
  http://wordpress.org/download/

* Create a new mysql database (and mysql username) for your new blog.
  Substitute your weblog name for "blogname"::

  | mysql -u root -p
  | mysql> create database wp_blogname;
  | mysql> grant all privileges on wp_blogname.* to "bloguser"@"localhost"
  |        identified by "<<password here>>";
  | mysql> exit

* Untar/unzip the contents of the wordpress distribution into the
  directory that will be the root of the weblog.  We have a
  virtualhost set up in httpd.conf just for weblogs:
  'blog.red-bean.com', and they all live in /www/blog/.

  | su - www-data
  | cd /www/blog/
  | tar xfvzp wordpress.tar.gz
  | mv wordpress blogname

* Rename **wp-config-sample.php** to **wp-config.php**::

  | mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

* Edit wp-config.php.  Make the following changes:

  * define the DB_NAME to be the same as the database created in mysql.

  * set the DB_USE, DB_PASSWORD, and DB_HOST to be the same as created
    in mysql

  * set the *$table_prefix* to be "``wp_blogname_``".  This ensures no
    overlap between weblogs.

* Visit the setup 'wizard' in a browser to complete the installation:
     http://blog.red-bean.com/blogname/wp-admin/install.php