[BlueOnyx:16695] Re: Wordpress Install for Newbie

[Michael Stauber]

Hi John,

> I am not a web developer, but I have been tasked with installing Wordpress on 
> our BlueOnyx server. I purchased the Wordpress installer from the BlueOnyx 
> store. Installed it along with the WebApp installer it said was needed. Software 
> shows as installed, but the installer placed Wordpress 4.0.1 in a separate 
> directory from our actual website. How do I access Wordpress through my browser 
> to administer it? Can I simply move the Wordpress directory to the same 
> directory as our website, or will that break functionality?

Welcome to the BlueOnyx list.

I think it is best I walk you through the installation on the BlueOnyx
demo server. The login details are as follows:

URL:       http://demo.blueonyx.it:444/login
Username:  admin
Password:  demo123.

Please note: The password has a dot at the end.

The demo runs BlueOnyx 5207R, but the procedure is the same for all
BlueOnyx versions and the menu layout and handling is (almost) identical.

When logged in, go to "Site Management" and select a virtual site. For
our example I use "www.tardis.co.uk".

So click on "Site Management", click on the pen icon next to
"www.tardis.co.uk" and then on the "Services" menu entry in the lefthand
menu. There you find a menu entry for "Web Application". Click on that,
please.

This will lead you to this URL:

http://demo.blueonyx.it:444/webapps/webAppVsiteSetup?group=site3

Click on the pen icon next to the Wordpress entry. That will lead you to
this URL in the GUI:

http://demo.blueonyx.it:444/webapps/webappVsiteEdit?group=site3&appname=wordpress

The only thing that you need to fill out there is the "Install Path".
That defines where Wordpress will be installed in the virtual site
www.tardis.co.uk. By default the path is the name of the application, so
it's shown as "wordpress" by default.

If you'd click on "Save" and this were not a Demo-server, it would
install Wordpress at the URL http://www.tardis.co.uk/wordpress/, which
is the directory /home/sites/www.tardis.co.uk/web/wordpress/ on the server.

Now if you instead would like to install Wordpress directly into the
root directory of the Vsite, so that it becomes available under
http://www.tardis.co.uk/ instead, then you need to edit the field
"Install Path". Simply remove the "wordpress" text from that field and
leave it empty. Or put a "." or a "/" in it.

Then save the changes. That will then install Wordpress directly into
/home/sites/www.tardis.co.uk/web/ to make it available under the URL
http://www.tardis.co.uk/

There is just one catch if you do install it directly into the root
directory of a virtual site: That site might already have an index.html
file in /home/sites/www.tardis.co.uk/web/ and Wordpress installs an
index.php. The index.html usually takes precedence over an index.php.

So after the install you might need to remove the file
/home/sites/www.tardis.co.uk/web/index.html manually.

Once Wordpress has been installed into a virtual site, you can go back
to this menu page to manage backups of the Wordpress files and its MySQL
database. And you can also use it to restore these, or to manage updates
to newer Wordpress installs.

One example for this would be this URL:

http://demo.blueonyx.it:444/webapps/webappVsiteEdit?group=site1&appname=wordpress

That is the respective menu page for the virtual site
"mail.solarspeed.net" where Wordpress is already installed.

Let me know if that answers your questions or if you need anything else.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber