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Setting Up a Local Environment on Linux (Apache)

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Erik Helleren edited this page Apr 17, 2014 · 4 revisions

Install LAMP (if not already done)
Install Postgres according to your package manager or from source
Make sure the PHP plugin for postgresql is installed using # apt-get install php5-pgsql or the equivalent for your package manager
Execute the following commands in psql interactive shell...

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER wordpress WITH PASSWORD 'wordpress';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE wordpress to wordpress;

In your Apache config, add a SetEnv directive like SetEnv DATABASE_URL postgres://wordpress:wordpress@localhost:5432/wordpress
Change the first line of your wp-config.php to use $_SERVER["DATABASE_URL"] if DATABASE_URL not found in $_ENV:

if (isset($_ENV["DATABASE_URL"]))
  $db = parse_url($_ENV["DATABASE_URL"]);
else
  $db = parse_url($_SERVER["DATABASE_URL"]);

(Re)start Apache, and open http://localhost/wp-admin in a browser.
For people new to Apache, run sudo ln -s /full/path/to/wordpress-heroku/ /var/www/wordpress. This is a workaround to avoid poking around that much in Apache's configs. To access the blog locally go to http://localhost/wordpress/