Install WordPress

If you need a testing environment for a WordPress hosting, the good news is that you can install locally a Nginx/PHP/MariaDB setup on your Haiku system ! 

Before moving to the WordPress setup, please follow the articles about Nginx/PHP "Nginx and PHP" and MariaDB "Install MariaDB" in order to have a full working environment with Nginx/PHP/MariaDB.

Download WordPress

Once your environment is setup with Nginx/PHP/MariaDB, download WordPress via the URL: https://wordpress.org/download/ 

Click on "Download and install it yourself".

To complete the download, extract the zip archive to the "/boot/home/www" directory : 

Ok, now we can proceed with the first setup :)

Installation

Open a terminal and change the owner/group of all the files regarding wordpress to "nginx" :

cd www
chown -R nginx:nginx *

Then create an empty MariaDB database named "wordpress" :

mariadb -u root -p
create database wordpress;
exit;

Open WebPositive to the local URL : 

http://localhost/wordpress

Then select your language and confirm with "Continue" : 

Confirm the installation :

Enter the below information :

• Database Name : wordpress
• Username : root
• Password : your MariaDB root's password
• Database Host : 127.0.0.1 (localhost might not work properly)

Confirm with the "Submit" button.

If the database access is working as expected, you will see the below message : 

Click on "Run the installation" to start it.

Then enter the information needed :

• Site title : the title of your site
• Username : your wordpress's admin username
• Password : your wordpress's admin password  
• Email : your email 

Proceed with "Install WordPress".

Tada !

WordPress is now fully installed on your Haiku system :)

Initial site 

If you open WebPositive to your local site, you will see the below content displayed : 

This is the default testing website available when WordPress has just been installed.

You can of course change its content.

For that go to the admin page :

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin 

The first time you access to the admin, you will need to login with your wordpress's admin user : 

Once done, you should see the default dashboard : 

From that starting point, you can access the posts of the website : 

And edit the content of the "Hello world!" post : 

You can change its content, add images to the post, and for a new post decide when it will be published : 

Another interesting part in WordPress are the plugins available : 

You can decide to install plugins depending on your needs : 

Please note that the default free wordpress hosting does not provide access to plugins.

However if you decide to go for a paid web hosting (wordpress or another provider), plugins access should be available.

I hope you have found this article useful on how to install a testing WordPress environment under Haiku :)