Public bug reported:
The wordpress (3.3.1+dfsg-1) package in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installs a
script called /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples/setup-mysql. Since
setting up the wordpress mysql database isn't trivial, lots of tutorial
recommend using it (e.g., http://ubuntuserverguide.com/2012/05/how-to-
install-latest-wordpress-in-ubuntu-server-12-04-lts.html). I assume the
user is using wordpress with a standard LAMP stack (e.g., the one
installed by tasksel, which includes apache and mysql). Most tutorials
write that you only need to do two things after installing theese
packages: you need to link /usr/share/wordpress to a directory that
Apache sees (I did 'sudo ln -s /usr/share/wordpress
/var/www/wordpress'), and you need to run this setup-mysql script (which
appears to ultimately come from Debian, not wordpress itself).
However, that produced a broken installation on my system, when I issued
'sudo bash /usr/share/doc/wordpress/examples/setup-mysql -n wordpress
localhost'. I expected this to produce a working install when I went to
localhost/wordpress in a browser, but uploading was broken in two ways.
First, it created a directory /srv/www/wp-uploads/$DOMAIN (don't ask me
why it creates a new root-level directory: shouldn't this be in /var?),
but assigned the wrong permissions to this directory. Consequently,
uploads fail, producing a php error that you can see in the browser.
Secondly, it creates a wordpress config file
/etc/wordpress/config-$DOMAIN.php that pointed to a different directory
than the above-mentioned /srv/www/wp-uploads/$DOMAIN, so that no
uploaded image links work. Inspection of /var/log/apache2/error.log
showed that it was looking for these files in the wrong place. I solved
this by putting wp-uploads with the rest of the wordpress stuff
(/var/www/wordpress/) and telling the /etc/wordpress/config-$DOMAIN.php
what I had done.
** Affects: wordpress (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Wordpress "setup-mysql" script broken
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