Quick and Dirty Textpattern install
I installed a new site on one of my boxes using textpattern on Ubuntu 5.10. Because I routinely forget things, I figured I’d pastebomb my notes here so that I could find them again. Isn’t Google great….
Notes Follow
Move to web root
cd /var/www
Get textpattern:
wget -c http://textpattern.com/dload/textpattern-4.0.3.tar.gz
Unpack the beast
tar -xvzf textpattern-4.0.3.tar.gz
mv textpattern-4.0.3 example.org
Fiddle with permissions:
chown -R root.root example.org
cd example.org/
chmod go+w files images
Monkey with Apache config:
emacs example.org———APACHE CONFIG ——
ServerName example.org
ServerAlias www.example.org
ServerAdmin webmaster@example.orgDocumentRoot /var/www/example.org/
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
- Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
- alert, emerg.
LogLevel warnCustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
ServerSignature On
Activate Site:
a2ensite example.org
Restart Apache:
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Create mysql database:
mysql
create database example_org;———config.php——
grant all privileges on example_org.* to ‘example_textp’@’localhost’ identified by ‘changeme’;
q
$txpcfg[‘db’] = ‘example_org’;
$txpcfg[‘user’] = ‘example_textp’;
$txpcfg[‘pass’] = ‘changeme’;
$txpcfg[‘host’] = ‘localhost’;
$txpcfg[‘table_prefix’] = ‘’;
$txpcfg[‘txpath’] = ’/var/www/example.org/textpattern’;
$txpcfg[‘dbcharset’] = ‘latin1’;
?>———config.php——
Nuke setup directory:
rm -rf /var/www/example.org/textpattern/setup
This should hold for almost any distribution, if you make appropriate changes. Fortunately, this time I didn’t have any further trouble with Apache vhost configurations.
