Setting Up Wordpress on BeagleBone Black
Mar 13, 2014Technology
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.
