Comments on: Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) - Part 15: WordPress Setup & Updates from the Command Line

By: the_guv

the_guv — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:55 +0000

@Johnny .. thank you. will add that into the post .. nice tip .. i had no idea.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:03:42 +0000

Guv,

Regarding the '[space] + .' that you mention for everyone to keep at the end of their svn checkout commands it would be nice to explain what that dot actually means.

To all that are not aware, the '[space] + .' after your checkout tells subversion(svn) to place the files your checking out into the current directory. You may also, after the space, choose another directory of your choice to checkout into given you have the proper permissions to do so.

More importantly, great work Guvnr. I look forward to seeing your new site vpsbible.com. Honestly, I am a bit surprised it was available! If you need any help, suggestions, design or development please don't hesitate to ask. My friends and I have tried similar things before but I think your hitting a nerve. Good on 'ya.! Aloha.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:55:40 +0000

@Andy .. you thinking of spawn-fcgi for MU, per chance? Actually not reqd if the vhost rewrite is OK*. Have written an MU guide now and will be pubbing that on vpsBible.

* With MU and, therefore, BuddyPress, basically, the virtual host, the site's server-specific config file (or is that the server's site-specific config file ) needs to allow for sub-domains now, ie, not just the main site like mydomain.com, but also stuff like someSubSite.mydomain.com

.. so that needs a new wildcard A record (*.mydomain.com. - including last period) as well as the rewrite.

Have written an MU/BP guide now and will be pubbing that on vpsBible.com

By: Andy Symonds

Andy Symonds — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:34:29 +0000

George Smith you are a legend - thanks for thise chown commands!!!

Also will say it again - thank you the_guv for this great guide.

Lastly any reason why you didn't use spawn-fcgi for this series as this seems to be recommended everywhere currently?

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By: the_guv

the_guv — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:43:50 +0000

@George .. no worries, pleased you're sorted, Sir.

By: George Smith

George Smith — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:15:15 +0000

Sorry, I just noticed someone posted a similar comment to my previous one above. After a little research, I was able to solve my WordPress uploads problem by changing the owner and group of -both- wp-content and wp-admin (and their contents) to 'www-data'.

So that's:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/wordpress/wp-admin
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/wordpress/wp-content

By: George Smith

George Smith — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:08:49 +0000

Guv, I'm having some problems with Wordpress having followed the tutorials here. My site's up and running, and I can upload themes and plugins using an FTP client, but I'd also like to be able to do so using the Wordpress admin panel, and at the moment that's proving impossible - whenever I try, it prompts for connection information (hostname, username etc.), but nothing I enter seems to suffice. I've tried a couple of things (modifying the permissions of the wp-content folder, modifying its group etc.) but to no avail. Any advice you could give on fixing this would be very much appreciated.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:09:55 +0000

@juanel .. tell me, what's your procedure .. you using WordPress' file uploader? (generally I don't, but just did to test and it worked.) what's the output of :-

ls -l /path/to/the/uploads/PARENT/folder .. as standard, that's your wp-content folder

.. just give me the line referring to the uploads folder.

some permissions issue here. tell you what, AFTER noting the above from teh list (ls) command, do this:-

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/the/uploads/PARENT/folder

.. then try upload again. please lemme know.