WordPress 4.1.1 installation on Ubuntu 14.04

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  • Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, Apache/2.4.9, PHP 5.5.15RC1, git 2.0.2, MySQL 5.5.41-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 / easy /

There is the Famous 5-Minute Install instruction so these are just my personal notes if I have to install other instances on a similar environment.

Unpacking the files

WordPress devs have decided on, what I consider as outdated, SVN, however they have been kind to put up a GitHub repo. This makes it easier to pull or merge latest updates even though the update is supposed to be much simpler.

mhan@brahms: /srv/www/blog $ git clone https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress.git .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Counting objects: 196601, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (43/43), done.
remote: Total 196601 (delta 28), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 196558
Receiving objects: 100% (196601/196601), 116.49 MiB | 9.94 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (154751/154751), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Checking out files: 100% (1424/1424), done.

Set up the database

TBC