{"id":170,"date":"2005-12-30T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=170"},"modified":"2005-12-30T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T12:06:46","slug":"installing-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Installing WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">wordpress<\/a> is generally one of the easiest things to do for anybody with a clue about internet software. All you need is access to a mysql database, an ftp client, a webserver and text editor. What could go wrong? Well, I&#8217;ve noticed that in the latest version (2.0) of the tar.gz download the configuration file seems to be incorrect. I&#8217;ve opened this in several editors on windows and linux and everything is lumped onto a single line. Therefore when you go to the http:\/\/www.yourdomain\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/installation.php config page it will produce a rather unhelpful <code>\"failed to open file\"<\/code> message. Here&#8217;s a proper version of the file.<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n<?php\n\/\/ ** MySQL settings ** \/\/\ndefine('DB_NAME', 'your-db-name');\n\/\/ The name of the database\ndefine('DB_USER', 'your-db-user');\n\/\/ Your MySQL username\ndefine('DB_PASSWORD', 'your-db-passwd');\n\/\/ ...and password\ndefine('DB_HOST', 'localhost');\n\/\/ 99% chance you won't need to change this value\n\/\/ You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix\n\/\/$table_prefix  = 'wp_';   \/\/ Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!\n\/\/ Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the\n\/\/ chosen language must be installed to wp-includes\/languages.\n\/\/ For example, install de.mo to wp-includes\/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'\n\/\/ to enable German language support.\ndefine ('WPLANG', '');\n\/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. *\/\ndefine('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'\/');\nrequire_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');\n?><br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing wordpress is generally one of the easiest things to do for anybody with a clue about internet software. All you need is access to a mysql database, an ftp client, a webserver and text editor. What could go wrong? Well, I&#8217;ve noticed that in the latest version (2.0) of the tar.gz download the configuration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}