Running Wordpress Appserver.io is a pretty cool and sophiscated infrastructure fully built upon the PHP stack. This makes it truely easy to develop and extend the platform. Appserver.io comes with an built in webserver module with PHP-FPM therefore it is possible to install any PHP-App you like and run it on that platform. The following guide shows you how easy it is to install appserver.io on a Mac and run Wordpress on it.
Prerequirements: Up and running installation of MySQL You will need a running installation of appserver.io (>= Version 1.0.0-rc3). If you are new to this project you can easily download and follow the installation guide for your specific OS. After the setup has finished the appserver.io is up and running and you can call the welcome page with http://localhost:9080/ By default, appserver.io is configured to run on port 9080 in order to not to affect any
existing
webserver
installations.
You
can
easily
change
that
in
the
/opt/appserver/etc/appserver.xml just by going to section <server name="http" ... and change the port within that section for example to 80. After that restart the appserver.io which can be done with the following command.
sudo /opt/appserver/sbin/appserverctl restart Of course there is no need to change the port if you only want to check out the capabilities of this tremendous platform.
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Installation: You are now set to install and run your application on appserver.io. For that we download the latest wordpress release from wordpress.org. To go ahead and install wordpress we have now two options. The easiest way is to install wordpress without creating a vhost. Therefore you just unpack the wordpress source into your Webrootfolder which in case of the appserver is always the webapps folder underneath /opt/appserver/webapps/. In that folder you will still find the already installed example app and of course the welcome page. We are just creating a folder with name „wordpress“ and unpacking the source there. After successfully unpacking the wordpress sources you are able to use the wordpress
webinstaller
just
by
opening
a
browser
and
calling
the
URL
http://127.0.0.1:9080/wordpress/. Before you step over the installation you should correct the rights of the wordpress folder to ensure wordpress is able to write the configuration.
chmod -R 775 /opt/appserver/webapps/wordpress/ Now you are free to step over the installation wizard and for that it is necessary to create a database on your local running MySQL. To create a database you can use the MySQL command line or just use another database administration tool like phpMyAdmin. Of course you can also install phpMyAdmin on appserver.io. Just read the appropriate tutorial. To create the database by the command line just use the following line
mysql -uroot -p Now you are on the MySQL command line and it is pretty easy to create an empty database. Just use the following command.
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
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Now you are ready to install wordpress. Just follow to steps on the install wizard. If you want to use a virtual host to run wordpress simply follow the steps below. As with any other Webserver using a vhost you first have to add the domain you'd like to use in your hosts file.
sudo vi /etc/hosts Add the following lines there: 127.0.0.1 wordpress.local ::1 wordpress.local fe80::1%lo0 wordpress.local Afterwards you have to add the vhost to the webserver config of the appserver which
you
also
find
in
/opt/appserver/etc/appserver/conf.d/virtual-
hosts.xml. There is already an example virtual host configuration available there. Put the following configuration within the tag. <virtualHost name="wordpress.local"> <params> <param name="admin" type="string">info@appserver.io</param> <param name="documentRoot" type="string">webapps/wordpress</param> </params> </virtualHost> After adding the Vhost you have to restart the appserver and you should start with the installation like described at the beginning of this tutorial
sudo /opt/appserver/sbin/appserverctl restart If you alread installed wordpress and now you want to use the configured filename you just have to change the siteurl in the settings menu of wordpress.
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