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  • 10-29-2009, 8:19 AM

    Notes on installing WordPress

    Having cleared all my IIS settings while installing DotNetNuke, I needed to re-install WordPress, or rather to make IIS work with it again. I used WPI. The install went fine, but I have a couple of notes or issues to report:

    1. WPI said it would have to "install" MySQL, though MySQL was running the whole time. Maybe there needs to be a clearer way of phrasing that -- reconnect to MySQL? Update MySQL and reconfigure? Something like that.

    2. In the WordPress part of the WPI install, I was asked for "Unique Key for Passwords, Unique Key for Secure Passwords, Unique Key for Authentication, Second Unique Key for Authentication". I've done a lot of WP installs by hand, so I was prepared to put in one unique key, generated at WP's secret-key API. I was surprised to need *4* of them, and even more surprised when the WP-generated keys weren't accepted due to too many unconventional characters. In the event, I took my WP-generated keys and just deleted the special characters that aren't on the top line of my keyboard.

    I think the WPI needs to warn the user how many keys they're going to need, and there needs to be a link to an API that will generate one the system will accept -- preferably the WP secret-key API, since that's what we're used to using.

    Once that was done, everything worked just fine. The WPI is definitely a *huge* improvement over the calisthenics needed to get WP working on IIS the first time.

  • 11-03-2009, 6:40 PM In reply to

    • richma
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    Re: Notes on installing WordPress

    Hi  Datanostics..

     1. What version of mySQL are you running and did you install this with the MSI installer ?

    2. For the Secret Keys I used the generator  here   which is the 1.1 version I found on http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php .  I noticed the link you posted was 1.0.

    This creates 4 unique keys which is consistent with our input dialog. On my system (Windows 7) I did not recive any problems  with the generated keys. Do you recall what characters caused issues with your keys ?

    PS . Thanks for the inputs.

    Richard

     

     

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