Wordpress installation on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

Well as you can tell, I managed to install wordpress on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.

Fairly easy with the repository version.

# sudo apt-get install wordpress

# sudo cp /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /etc/wordpress/config-www.yoursitename.com.php

Create a MYSQL db and username. ( mysqladmin or other favorite db tool)

Edit the config file and specify the db and username created:

# sudo nano /etc/wordpress/config-www.yoursitename.com.php

** Note:  I had a config issue ( wp-settings.php not found ) and needed to change the sample to specify the absolute path

Change line from:

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');

To:

define('ABSPATH', '/usr/share/wordpress/');

Configure apache virtual path ( created a new file: /etc/apache2/conf.d/wordpress ):

Alias /wordpress /usr/share/wordpress

<Directory /usr/share/wordpress>
 Options FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride Limit Options FileInfo
</Directory>

Whoila. Hit http://www.yoursitename/wordpress and away you go.

The version in the repo is 2.3.3 and there is a newer one available from wordpress.com.  For now, Im content running what I have. ;)