Creating a WordPress site on studentweb server

by | Dec 9, 2014 | studentweb

This guide assumes that you have already created your class resources by logging into http://account.comminfo.rutgers.edu . If not, then this step must be completed before proceeding.

  1. Download WordPress: https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  2. Upload the WordPress files to your home directory on the studentweb server using FileZilla or WinSCP.
  3. Extract the WordPress site files. You can accomplish this with the “tar” command within the studentweb server: tar xvzf wordpress.latest.tar.gz
  4. Determine where your public class webspace resides on the server. In WinSCP or FileZilla, browse to /www/studentweb.comminfo.rutgers.edu/htdocs. Find your class (listed by course number), then go into the folder that is labeled with your NetID. Copy this path to your clipboard, we will need it for the next step. One example of a public webspace path on studentweb is: /www/studentweb.comminfo.rutgers.edu/htdocs/class-2014-9-04-547-410-01/msouren
  5. Now we will move the extracted WordPress files to your class public webspace directory. In WinSCP/Filezilla, navigate back to your home directory. Navigate to the “wordpress” folder within your home directory. Select all files/folders available and right click them, select the “Move to” option. In the window that appears, paste in the path to your public webspace directory (this should be in your clipboard as part of step 4). Then click OK.
  6. In WinSCP, navigate to your public webspace directory that now contains WordPress site files. Select all files/folders, right click them and select “Properties”. Under “Octal”, change the permissions to “0775”. Check the box for “Set group, owner and permissions recursively” and click OK
  7. Navigate to your WordPress site in a web browser. In this example, the site path would be http://studentweb.comminfo.rutgers.edu/class-2014-9-04-547-410-01/msouren/
  8. Run through the installer. When prompted for database information, you will want to enter the information to access your class database. In this example, we would use the database name of “class-2014-9-04-547-410-01_msouren”, a username of “msouren” (your NetID), and the password is your MySQL password (located in your home directory in mysqlpassword.txt)