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Installing Word Press on Debian

Well I got the deb and installed it then changed the permissions on the files

  sudo apt-get wordpress
  sudo chown -R webapp:webapp /usr/share/wordpress
  sudo chown -R webapp:webapp /etc/wordpress

then I created a mysql database

  create database wordpress
  create user bloguser@localhost identified by xxxxxxx
  create user bloguser@myhost identified by xxxxxxx
  grant ALL on wordpress.* to bloguser

I added this section to /etc/apache2/sites-avalible/default

    Alias /wordpress/ "/usr/share/wordpress/"
    Alias /blog/ "/usr/share/wordpress/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/wordpress/">
        Options MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
 #       AuthType digest
 #       AuthName personal_info
 #       AuthDigestFile /etc/apache2/digest/personal_info
 #       Require user friend family
    </Directory>


Then I put db login information in /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php Then I patched /usr/share/wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.ph by following the diff here http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2544/2544.diff

I also removed white space at the end of /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php which was the cause of "Can not modify headers" errors

Finally I copy in my theme to /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ericp