Hi,
I have a curious problem installing WordPress on a local LAMP server running CentOS 5.5. I have some other (dynamic) websites running on the same machine without problems. Here's what I did.
1) Create a 'wordpress' database in MySQL monitor.
2) Download WordPress, unzip it into /var/www/html/
3) # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wordpress
4) Open Firefox on http://localhost/wordpress
5) Follow instructions (fill in database name, database user and password, etcetera).
And here's where things go wrong. When I click on "Begin installation", Firefox wants to "open" the file install.php by leaving me one of the two following choices :
a) edit "install.php" in GEdit b) download "install.php"
I'm puzzled. Why doesn't install.php simply open as a page?
Any idea what went wrong here?
Cheers,
Niki
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And here's where things go wrong. When I click on "Begin installation", Firefox wants to "open" the file install.php by leaving me one of the two following choices :
a) edit "install.php" in GEdit b) download "install.php"
It sounds like you might not have your php set up correctly in apache or at least in this virtualhost. Somewhere in your configuration do you have lines that say:
AddHandler php5-script .php AddType text/html .php
This is most likely found in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf
Barry
On 7/23/2010 12:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/23/10 5:47 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote:
- # chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wordpress
I have always been told that apache shouldn't own or have write access to files or directories unless it absolutely has to, as this is a unnecessary security exposure
Correct. However if you wish to implement the client upload feature, there is an uploads directory under wp-content which will need write ability. The WordPress created subdirectories within this directory will also be set to these permissions. But that is only place where write should be considered. This is where items like uploaded photos exist.
John Hinton
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