Installing WordPress + Gallery3

This is an quick start for the blog. Don’t mind on if the text + output isn’t that fluent and there are other flaws, as this is really quick and dirty start.

Although the plan is to have it still useful for someone trying to do similar, so as this was done mid Jan 2013, I think at least for few months it should be fairly similar for anyone else trying to do similar.

So how it starts. First of I used my service providers (Kapsi ry) MySQL. They provided me the DB, so just ordered from them that need it for WordPress + Gallery use (mainly) and they provided me:

MySQL-servername: xyz.kapsi.fi
MySQL-dbname:     mydbname
MySQL-account:    mydbaccount
MySQL-pwd:        mydbpassword

My service provider provides me disk space  email, DNS, web, ssh shell + some other services in linux server. I think this should be quite common for many.

So from the DB side you don’t need more. I was assured that there is enough space and I got also PHPMyAdmin tool to admin if I need to. For this (in finnish) you can surf the details from http://www.kapsi.fi/palvelut/tietokannat.html

Ok so then just surfed a bit throug wordpress.org and gallery.menalto.com pages, and then hitted the shell.

Used following to pull the package and then just untarred that .

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Then I just followed the bellow instructions on configuring putting here the previous db infos.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install

nano -w wp-config.php

I moved the files as mentioned in the instructions and put all on the sites www.lehtosaari.fi main dir just removing previous index.php I created some time ago.

Created couple of accounts and pulled some packages.

 

Then for the gallery3, pulled this

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gallery/gallery3/3.0.4/gallery-3.0.4.zip

From Gallery pages under support – gallery3 faq pointing to this

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Quick_StartF

unpacked and moved as its own dir gallery3 under my web root.

Then with web config and it was done. Some minor but quite obvious things in gui but really simple.

Will try to update some more related stuff on this later.