about installing wordpress

[satimis]

Hi all,

Ubuntu 12.04 desktop 64bit

I followed;

1)
How To Install LAMP Server in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
How To Install LAMP Server in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS | Ubuntu Server Guide

2)
How to install WordPress in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
How To Install Latest Wordpress in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS | Ubuntu Server Guide

On running;
$ sudo bash /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples/setup-mysql -n wordpress_preciseserver blog.preciseserver.com
ping: unknown host blog.preciseserver.com

Please advise how to fix this problem? TIA

Regards
satimis

[msohail]

Edit /etc/hosts file with the IP address to point to blog.preciseserver.com
Add the same to your DNS records for everyone to access or if you the only one then add the add same as /etc/hosts file in your windows hosts file as well.

Jazak Allah,
Sohail

[satimis]

Edit /etc/hosts file with the IP address to point to blog.preciseserver.com

Hi,

$ nslookup blog.preciseserver.com

Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find blog.preciseserver.com: NXDOMAIN

$ cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Replace the line

127.0.0.1       localhost

with;

127.0.0.1       blog.preciseserver.com

$ ping -c 2 blog.preciseserver.com

PING blog.preciseserver.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from blog.preciseserver.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms
64 bytes from blog.preciseserver.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms

--- blog.preciseserver.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.032/0.034/0.036/0.002 ms

Then it works. Thanks

Add the same to your DNS records for everyone to access or if you the only one then add the add same as /etc/hosts file in your windows hosts file as well.

I don't run DNS server here.

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.0.1

I found another manual installing wordpress
WordPress
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WordPress

The steps seems different. I'm not quite clear;

Enable the Universe repository
1.    I am using Ubuntu server (command line)
2.    I am using a desktop

?

I'm now installing wordpress on Ubuntu 12.04 desktop

satimis

[msohail]

Please add "localhost" besides your blog site address in /etc/hosts file or you may face problems when wordpress tries to communicate with MySQL server if you go with default wordpress installation parameters.

Jazak Allah,
Sohail

[satimis]

Please add "localhost" besides your blog site address in /etc/hosts file or you may face problems when wordpress tries to communicate with MySQL server if you go with default wordpress installation parameters.

Whether you meant editing the line as;

127.0.0.1       blog.preciseserver.com    localhost

Tired it. It also works.

Please explain why without adding "localhost" next to "blog.preciseserver.com" wiil face problems when wordpress tries to communicate with MySQL server? Why it can't communicate with MySQL server? TIA

satimis

[msohail]

Whether you meant editing the line as;

127.0.0.1       blog.preciseserver.com    localhost

Tired it. It also works.

Please explain why without adding "localhost" next to "blog.preciseserver.com" wiil face problems when wordpress tries to communicate with MySQL server? Why it can't communicate with MySQL server? TIA

satimis

When you install wordpress from the browser, the browser loads up the default connection details of mysql, and adds servers name as localhost; which in your case will not be able to resolve since you removed the entry from /etc/hosts file (of course u added it now ). Then you will have to put your blog's address in "Server" section, which of course will also work but which is not a good practice when everything is in one single machine.

Jazak Allah;
Sohail