Installing wordpress using SSH

By Head Lounger • March 4th, 2010 • Web Servers,Word Press Tags: Install, SSH, Word Press •

Most of my clients are on a WordPress platform. It is much easier to install new wordpresses through SSH, then through the traditional Cpanel/plesk and ftp. Here is how you install WordPress using SSH.

Step1: Login to your server via SSH. (I like using puTTY for this.)

Your will need your:
ip:
user:
pass:

Step2: Navigate to your current directory on the server

cd /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/

Step3: Download the latest version of wordpress to your server.

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Step4: Unzip the download

unzip wordpress-2.9.2.zip

Step5: Move contents from wordpress directory to current location on server.

cp -rf ./wordpress/* ./

Step6: Creating MySQL DB

-Login to MySQL

mysql -uusername -ppassword

-Create Database

create database dbname

-Grant user access to new db

grant usage on *.* to username@localhost identified by 'password'

-Set Privileges to this user on this db

grant all privileges on dbname.* to username@localhost

-Test conntection, change values below with the newly created info from above and user that was granted access.

mysql -uusername -ppassword dbname

Note: If all was successful with no errors, your db is installed.

Step7:  Your wordpress is ready for the final installation.  Go to your site with the new WordPress files are located and follow the steps.

Note: You can remove the zip file now as well.

rm wordpress-2.9.2.zip

Note: To remove an entire directory

rm -rf DirectoryName

That is it. Congrats on setting up your first WordPress through SSH.