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Title: trouble with dungog smeserver-wordpress and wordpress 7RC3
Post by: purpaboo on June 21, 2006, 05:40:03 PM

Hi

I have installed dungog's smeserver-wordpress and wordpress and have got as far as the

myserver/wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php?step=1

page.

According to the dungog install, the details required should be as following:

databasename 'wordpress'
user 'wordpressuser'
password 'config show wordpress'

However, these do not work.  I have STFW and read the instructions at http://dungog.centosme.com/sme/webapp.php but am still without a clue.

Can anyone poke me gently in the right direction? This is all on a clean 7RC3 box.

TIA

Pete

Title: Re: trouble with dungog smeserver-wordpress and wordpress 7R
Post by: CharlieBrady on June 21, 2006, 06:10:45 PM

Quote from: "purpaboo"

Can anyone poke me gently in the right direction?

The Bug tracker. Link is to the left. Choose "SME Contribs".

Title: trouble with dungog smeserver-wordpress and wordpress 7RC3
Post by: icpix on June 22, 2006, 01:01:50 PM

purpaboo----
You don't 'need' a contrib to install wordpress on SME.
Just install yourself a perfectly ordinary iBay on your SME.
Browse to and download the latest WordPress distribution.
http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Read the WordPress installation wiki stuff.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
Uncompress the WordPress distribution into that iBay.
Give yourself a MySQL WordPress database.
Put a few details into the wp-config.php file.
Run the install.php and answer a few questions.
Start blogging.
----best wishes, Robert

Title: trouble with dungog smeserver-wordpress and wordpress 7RC3
Post by: cactus on June 24, 2006, 10:38:02 AM

Quote from: "icpix"

purpaboo----
You don't 'need' a contrib to install wordpress on SME.

But it is the easiest and preferred way as installing in an ibay is not.

Title: trouble with dungog smeserver-wordpress and wordpress 7RC3
Post by: icpix on June 24, 2006, 10:54:24 AM

cactus----

A generic answer to that would not be fair or accurate.

An rpm compiled to install a one-off or specialist type of facility is the easiest/preferred way - yes, I would generally agree. However it does tie you to that contribution, its author and his or her continued ability or generosity for updates. A good example of that is the wonderful Jesper's ClamAV contrib for SME6.

Putting WordPress down in the 'core' (as opposed to an easily maintained iBay) may lead to difficulties implementing regular or security updates from WordPress. ie these are base files and not wrapped up in an all-encompassing rpm. By not having such an immediate update facility reliably available, or expected to be available, you leave yourself vulnerable when there is a security alert. Putting this another way, the WordPress people are not necessarily going to be able to help you with SME difficulties and there may not be any SME people able/willing to help with a user-application such as WordPress. Just my opinion;~)

----best wishes, Robert

Title: trouble with dungog smeserver-wordpress and wordpress 7RC3
Post by: stiperstones on June 24, 2006, 05:03:30 PM

To get the right password open up a terminal in linux and login to your server in windows use putty as root

Then issue this command

Code: [Select]

config show wordpress

copy and paste the output unto the password box for your msql server.