Mesh/Website/Local

How to set up a local instance of a sudo mesh sites, namely peoplesopen.net.

peoplesopen.net website

Debian / Ubuntu / General? Linux

• Install LAMP server which is a common software stack of Linux with Apache, MySQL, and PHP (but also can refer to Perl/Python).

  $ sudo apt-get install tasksel

  • Select the "LAMP server" option with the space bar, then press enter or select the "OK" button.

  or, possibly use:

  $ sudo apt-get install lamp-server

  if that doesn't work, try installing lamp via the following:

  $ sudo apt-get install apache2

  Then install PHP:

  $ sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5

• Examine how Apache runs, can be managed as a service to "reload" or "restart", and how it works with PHP.
  • For most of this, having a full LAMP install saves a bit of configuration time to get running.
  • Apache site config file: https://gist.github.com/wrought/7296693 for /etc/apache2/sites-available/peoplesopen.loc

    $ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/peoplesopen.loc.conf

    • • For some reason, modern Ubuntu needs the ".conf" on the end--it shouldn't really matter, but it's convenient.
  • Create the directories for your site

    $ sudo mkdir /var/www/peoplesopen.loc/public_html -p

• • Need to enable site with:

    $ sudo service apache2 restart

    $ sudo a2ensite peoplesopen.loc

    • You may need to
• Edit /etc/hosts file to include something like this line (unless you have a specific configuration):

  127.0.1.1 peoplesopen.loc

  • If you happen to be using a local dns caching system, you may need clear it with something like:

    $ sudo service nscd restart

  • Now visit http://peoplesopen.loc in your browser
• Install WordPress (it's easy!)
  • Grab a copy of latest wordpress:

    $ cd /var/www/peoplesopen.loc

    $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

    $ unzip latest.zip

    $ mv wordpress/* public_html/

    $ rm -r wordpress/

  • Change owners (this lets the Apache users, who goes by www-data on debian/ubuntu own the files and write to them, but you can too as the group owner)

    $ sudo chown www-data:YOURUSERNAME ./ -R

    $ sudo chmod g+w ./ -R

  • Create a MySQL database.

    $ mysql -u root -p

    mysql> create database peoplesopen;

    mysql> show databases;

    mysql> quit;

  • Browse to http://peoplesopen.loc to proceed with the installation process, filling out with the information from the previous steps.
    • Fill out the basic site information (doesn't really matter, use whatever is helpful), including a local user account. Don't forget the password, it'll be easier not to.
  • Once you've finished and logged in to this new local site, we need to install the themes, including making a clone of the github repository of the peoplesopen "child theme" to your local machine.

    $ cd /var/www/peoplesopen.loc/wp-content/themes/

    $ wget https://github.com/downloads/320press/wordpress-foundation/wp-foundation-v2.0.zip

    $ unzip wp-foundation-v2.0.zip

    $ git clone git@github.com:sudomesh/peoplesopen.git

    • If you don't have git installed, install it this way:

      $ sudo apt-get install git

  • Finally, since the "child theme" specifies some custom colors, we need to save them so they show up:
    • Go to http://peoplesopen.loc/wp-admin/themes.php?page=options-framework and select "Save options" at the bottom of the page.