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Hosting a WordPress Blog with a Mammoth VPS

Setting up this blog was an interesting example of the simplicity and ease of use of Mammoth Servers. It took about 20 minutes from the time we decided to set up the VPS to the time the blog was ready, and most of that was documenting the process for this blog post!

For anyone interested in setting up a WordPress blog on a Mammoth VPS (running Debian), here's all you need to do:

1. Sign up for a VPS!
2. Connect to it via SSH
3. su to root
4. Run the following commands in order:

   apt-get update
   
   apt-get upgrade
   
   apt-get install apache2
   
   apt-get install php5
   
   apt-get install php5-mysql
   
   apache2ctl stop
   
   apache2ctl start
   
   apt-get install mysql-server
   
   

   The MySQL server installation will ask you to set a root password. Pick a good, secure one, and write it down - you'll need it later!

   cd /var/www
   
   wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
   
   tar xvzf latest.tar.gz
   
   mv wordpress/* .
   
   rmdir wordpress
   
   chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www
   
   mysql -p
   

   You'll be prompted for the root password - enter it here, then you'll be at the MySQL prompt, where you need to type the following commands:

    mysql> create database wordpress;
   
     mysql> quit
   

5. Once that is done, open up your web browser and throw in http://your.IP.address (or domain name, if you've set up a DNS record already)
6. From here, just follow the WordPress prompts, and you're done!