- I love the command line so the first thing I would do is to go open my shell connection, enter the server where I want to intall wordpress like
{Change forder to get to the target directory}
cd public_html
{Download the script}
wget http://mu.wordpress.org/latest.zip
{Uncompress the script}
unzip latest.zip
{Change to the folder generated in my case wordpress-mu-2.6.5}
cd wordpress-mu-2.6.5/
{Move all the contents to the public_html directory}
mv * ../
{Get back to the root directory}
cd ../
{Change permissions for the .htaccess file} –!Important if you don’t do this later on you will regret it , believe me.
chmod 777 .htaccess
Open your browser:
type in your url:
If everything is allright you should see a sort of wellcome message and at the footer you’ll see a warning that will tell you
to apply a quick fix in order to continu with the installation.
quickfix proposed by the system:
chmod 777 /home/bmxforce/public_html /home/bmxforce/public_html/wp-content/
Refresh your page once done
If everything is allright you should now see a form you need to fill in with the data we are gonna get now at your
cpanel admin normally located at http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
Here you have to find the “mysql” icon , click on it and create:
a) a database
b)an user
c)grant all permissions to user on the newly created db
Go back to your domain and complete the form , hit submit and voila!, by now you should be up and running with your worpress mu.
PS:This small guide assumes you are handy ad the unix/linux/gnu command line.