Setting Up Wordpress on BeagleBone Black

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Since BeagleBone Black’s hardware configuration is enough for running LAMP, I decide to run wordpress on it. ###Environment Hardware Configuration: CPU: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree) MEM: MemTotal: 507428 kB Disk: 1.8’’ USB Disk, 30 GB I also add 512MB swapfile for swapping partition.

Software Configuration: Kernel: Linux arm 3.8.13-bone30 #1 SMP Mon Nov 18 14:53:22 CST 2013 armv7l GNU/Linux OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7 \n \l ###LAMP Configuration ####Install Apache

	$ apt-get install apache2

After installation, simply open the browser and visit the http://YourIPAddress, if you can find “It works!", then this says the apache server is running now.

####Install MySQL MySQL is a powerful database management system which is used for organizing and retrieving data.

	$ apt-get install mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

You should be asked to provide the MySQL “root” user password. Activate MySQL via following command:

	$ mysql_install_db
	Change the root password? [Y/n] n 
	Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
	Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
	Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
	Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y

Now the MySQL is OK, you have to install PHP

####Install PHP Install following packages:

	$ apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt

Edit the directory index file:

	# cat /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
	<IfModule mod_dir.c>
	          DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
	</IfModule>
Install modules for using the searched result:<br />
	apt-cache search php5-
Testing PHP on your own apache search:<br />
	root@arm:/home# cat /var/www/info.php
	<?php
	phpinfo();
	?>

Restart apache server and view the result:

	# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

View the http://YourIpAddress/info.php you can see the php printed out messages.

###Wordpress Setup Download the latest Wordpress via:

	# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Install the ntp server, or you may meet some time and date problem:

	# apt-get install ntp

Ok, the time is really an issue, gonna be discussed later. Simply set the time via " date -s “$timestring”” is enough.

Now uncompress the wordpress.

Create the Wordpress Database and User:

	# mysql -u root -p
	mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
	Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
	mysql> CREATE USER wordpressuser@localhost;
	Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
	mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR wordpressuser@localhost= PASSWORD("xxxxxxxx");
	Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
	mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
	Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
	mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
	Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
	mysql> exit
	Bye

Setup the WordPress Configuration:

	cp ~/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php ~/wordpress/wp-config.php

Edit the configuration file:

	cat ~/wordpress/wp-config.php
	// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
	/** The name of the database for WordPress */
	define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
	
	/** MySQL database username */
	define('DB_USER', 'wordpressuser');
	
	/** MySQL database password */
	define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

Install rsync:

	# apt-get install rsync

Use rsync for sync to the website’s root directory:

	# rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/

Change to the website’s root directory and change the ownership to the apache user:

	root@arm:/etc# cd /var/www/
	root@arm:/var/www# chown www-data:www-data /var/www -R 
	root@arm:/# chmod g+w /var/www -R 

To know the username of apache:

	lsof -i 
	Notice the :http part.

Install php5-gd , which is the required php module to run wordpress.

	apt-get install php5-gd

Now access the page of /wp-admin/install.php is OK. or you can access the http://YourIPAddress is ready for install the wordpress on your BeagleBone Black.