ConfigureWordPress

Configuring WordPress on AFS Web

Purpose: This documentation will help configure the WordPress Content Management system to create a website using a graphical user interface on your NJIT AFS.

Before proceeding, insure you have access to your MySQL Database. For help, visit the NJIT MySQL page.

Enter your web directory:

cd ~/public_html

Download the latest version of WordPress (as of this writing the latest version is 4.5.2) You can confirm this by visiting https://wordpress.org/download/:

wget -c https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract the file:

tar -xvf latest.tar.gz

Enter the WordPress directory:

cd wordpress

Access your WordPress site at https://web.njit.edu/~UCID/wordpress where UCID is your personal UCID.

Note: If you want to access your WordPress site directly from your Web’s home, as in https://web.njit.edu/~UCID simply run:

mv -v ~/public_html/wordpress/* ~/public_html/

to move the contents from the directory to your public_html directory.

And remove the wordpress directory:

rm -rf ~/public_html/wordpress

The URL should direct you to https://web.njit.edu/~UCID/wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php

Select, Let’s go! to begin the setup.

Complete the form, entering the necessary information.

For Database Name, enter your UCID

For the Username and Password field, enter the username (UCID). and mysql password for your sql database.

For Database Host, enter the name of the sql server in which you have access to, replacing localhost.

For example, sql.njit.edu

Changing the Table Prefix is optional.

Select Submit to continue once the changes have been made.

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On the following page, WordPress will complain about not being able to create the wp-config.php file. Follow its instruction to create the file manually.

Copy the contents of wp-config.php and using your editor of choice, paste it into your ~/public_html/wordpress/wp-config.php file.

Next, select Run the install to continue.

The following page will ask for the Site Title, Username, Password and Your Email.

Enter the necessary information in these fields.

select Install WordPress to complete the installation.

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That’s it! Enjoy your new WordPress site on AFS.