Installing Wordpress in Linux servers without control panels

Wordpress is a popular bloging tool and a famous CMS which uses mysql and php. Its most widely used because of its simplicity. To instal wordpress in a linux server, follow the steps below: 1.Navigate to the Document root of the domain. 2. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 3. tar -xzvf wordpress-3.3.1.tar.gz 4. mv wordpress/* . 5. cp -p wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php 6. Open wp-config.php and give the DB info. 7. Open url : domainname/wp-login.php 8. Fill the details and click install wordpress. Thats it. You have successfully installed wordpress...

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Configure IP address in FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX.  Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called "UNIX", as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX (many of whose original developers became FreeBSD developers), FreeBSD's internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant. To set using command (temporarily) ifconfig interface inet IP eg: ifconfig lnc0 inet 192.168.1.2 lnc0 -->  interface name which can be obtained using ifconfig -a command To set permanently vi /etc/rc.conf hostname="linux4starters.com" ifconfig_lnc0="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" Run /etc/netstart scri...

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Configure Network Debian

Those who work in redhat flavour will find setting network in debian a bit tricky. Here is the simple and correct way of doing it. Open the file: /etc/network/interfaces. This is the file where we can add single or muliple ips. I will show examples of how to do both and also to set via DHCP. Setup interface to dhcp auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp To add single IP auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.254 To add multiple ips auto eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2 eth0:3 eth0:4 iface eth0 inet static     address 74.120.246.194         netmask 255.255.255.192         gateway 74.120.246.193 iface eth0:1 inet static        ...

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