WordPress installation on Debian 7.8 Wheezy

  • javpnunes

    (@javpnunes)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m having problems installing WordPress on my Debian Wheezy server. I use

    apt-get update

    and

    apt-get install wordpress

    but the installed version is 3.6.1. After install, the dashboard indicates that I have the latest version installed. How can I install the latest version? Do I have to do it manually?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Randy Sandberg

    (@randywsandberg)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    This should help:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update

    🙂

    Kolya Korobochkin

    (@korobochkin)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hm. I’d recommend update via wp-cli

    Madalin Ignisca

    (@madalinignisca)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello.

    Doing it from the distribution’s packages, you won’t be able to update from within WordPress.

    As you installed WordPress using the package manager in Debian, now you know that you have the hole needed LAMP pack to run WordPress.

    Uninstall WordPress (apt-get purge wordpress) and install it manually.

    Make sure after you install it to change the owner of the hole installation (/var/www in case you are making it the only site on your server) to “www-data” (same for group).

    “sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www”

    (That is as you installed previous WordPress from the Debian repo and PHP will run as mod_php under Apache.

    Let us know if it worked, if not, I could offer you more advanced help for running WordPress (multiple installations) under Debian/Ubuntu servers (other distributions as well).

    Thread Starter javpnunes

    (@javpnunes)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for your reply. Yes, I ended up installing WordPress manually. It’s working now, with its latest version and no problem updating or installing new themes or plugins.

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