Title: wordpress debian package
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wordpress debian package

 *  [cframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cframe/)
 * (@cframe)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/)
 * hey everyone,
    im just trying to get the wordpress debian package up and running
   on my local server to give it a whirl but i cant even get started on it at all.
   the package has installed fine and i can see all of the files in /usr/share/wordpress/
   but the path wordpress/wp-admin/ or any other variation cant be found by the 
   browser when i try to get access to the pages. Is there a specific address I 
   should be typing in to start the setup process or have I missed out some part
   of the apache config? Im running decian unstable on an x86 machine with php 4.3.4,
   apache 1.3. cheers for the help c.

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 *  [fbdp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fbdp/)
 * (@fbdp)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/#post-62214)
 * I also got WordPress package but as my localhost is located at /var/www/ I had
   to move WP directory to there. Check the DocumentRoot directive in your Apache
   configuration file httpd.conf.
 *  Thread Starter [cframe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cframe/)
 * (@cframe)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/#post-62276)
 * cheers, i thought it might be something like that but phpsysinfo is in the same
   root folder and it works ok…
    ill have another check through httpd.conf anyway
   though, cheers.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/#post-62906)
 * I just did ln -s /usr/share/wordpress/
    Seems to work so far and I don’t have
   to mess with what debian expects to be installed.
 *  [ss0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss0/)
 * (@ss0)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/#post-62960)
 * If you want to use wordpress as the root directory but not change your apache
   root directory in httpd.conf you can do cp -sR /usr/share/wordpress* /var/www/.
 *  [wantok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wantok/)
 * (@wantok)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/#post-62963)
 * That sounds almost exactly like the problem I just had. Hopefully this is a solution
   for you. I found that I needed to add an extra section to the relevant Apache
   config (i.e. add an extra section to that given as the Debian example config).
 * In addition to the `<Directory>` section for `/usr/share/wordpress` given in 
   the example config, you also need a `<Directory>` section for `/etc/wordpress`.
   I used the same options, but they probably need to be tweaked a bit. Hope that
   helps…

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [wantok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wantok/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-debian-package/#post-62963)
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