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| Blinkenshell has a special kind of web server environment, requests for users' web pages are proxied through another web server on the way. This might cause some problems with software that doesn't take in to account that things like this happens, WordPress for example does not handle this properly, especially version 2.3 ([[http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5089|WP Ticket #5089]], [[http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4602|WP Ticket #4602]].) | Wordpress uses PHP which is only available on [[Info/Supporter|Supporter accounts]]. |
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| Download and unpack the latest version of WordPress (2.3 when writing this): | Download and unpack the latest version of WordPress (version 3 when writing this): |
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| Set up a MySQL database in the signup program if you haven't already. Edit WordPress' config file: |
Edit the WordPress config file: |
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| Enter login details for the database, remember that DB_HOST should be 192.168.0.1 | Enter login details for the database, DB_HOST should be localhost. |
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| Surf to: `http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/blog/wp-admin/install.php` | Next, surf to: `http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/blog/wp-admin/install.php` |
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When you press next again, the page will not load properly. Don't worry about it. == Fix URL == (Instructions with pictures available here: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/ ) Go to https://marcusson.no-ip.com/phpmyadmin/ Log in to the database. Browse the table `wp_options`. Edit `siteurl`. Replace 192.168.1.12:8000 something with the URL to your blog: {{{ http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/blog/ }}} Save. Do the same with the option `home`, it's on the second page of options. |
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| == Fixing URL redirects == Edit wp-includes/canonical.php Insert this after the 4th row ("function redirect_canonical(...) {"): {{{ $do_redirect = false; }}} This will set `do_redirect` always be false, whatever the caller tries to do. This should take care of most problems, but not all. == Fixing the trailing slash problem == Save the plugin found [[http://flipjarg.blinkenshell.org/share/slashFix.txt | here]] to your WordPress plugin directory, like this: {{{ cd ~/public_html/blog/wp-includes/plugins wget http://flipjarg.blinkenshell.org/share/slashFix.txt mv slashFix.txt slashFix.php }}} Open `slashFix.php` and change line 22 to use your Blinkenshell login name: {{{ $user = "YOUR_USERNAME"; }}} Now just go to your WordPress panel and activate the plugin. == For Getting The Right IP Address == Many stat plugins for WordPress list the country and IP address of the visitors to the blog. To show you which country the visitors are from you need the correct IP address. Plus it is just fun to see the different IP addresses also because you can tell if there were different users or the same people visiting. If you want to get the IP of a visitor you can not use the normal way since you will only get the IP of the forwarding proxy. Instead use the data available in the `X-Forwarded-For` request header ([[http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#x-headers|More about X-headers in Apache's Documentation]].) This data is available in the variable $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] in PHP (this variable can contain multiple IPs.) Some plugins have an ''if statement'' to show the correct IP address but many leave this out. Simply find the variable that sets the IP address, usually `$ip` or something similar. Change it from `$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];` to `$ipAddress = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];` == Upgrading 2.4 -> 2.5 == See the blog entry here: http://independence.blinkenshell.org/blog/?p=26 == Known problems == When you edit certain settings etc, they will redirect you to a URL like: `http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/~<username>/` or similar, just remove the second occurance of your username and press enter to load the real page. It might be possible to solve this with some htaccess magic. When linking to your blog, using a trailing slash after the directory like: `http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/blog/` seems to do the trick for getting your visitors to the correct URL. Without the trailing slash visitors may be redirected to an ugly URL with redundant <username>'s as mentioned above. The plugin that was menioned under the previous heading should fix this problem. Using nice permanent links doesn't work out of the box, but shouldn't be impossible to get working properly with a bit of tweaking. If you find solutions for any of these problems, please share them with us. This is wiki so you can just edit this page right away! Good luck with your WordPress blog, and don't forget to join [[Planet_Blinkenshell]]! ;) |
How to install WordPress at Blinkenshell
Wordpress uses PHP which is only available on Supporter accounts.
Download and unpack
Download and unpack the latest version of WordPress (version 3 when writing this):
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar xvzf latest.tar.gz
Rename (and move):
mv wordpress public_html/blog rm latest.tar.gz
Set up MySQL
Edit the WordPress config file:
cd public_html/blog mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php nano -w wp-config.php
Enter login details for the database, DB_HOST should be localhost.
Run installer
Next, surf to: http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/blog/wp-admin/install.php
Enter blogs name and email, press next.
Copy the password and save it in a textfile or something.
Logging in
Go back to your blog: http://<username>.blinkenshell.org/blog/
Login with "admin" and the password you saved in a textfile before.