Collaboration Chronicles

I was writing an article for our blog @ Collaboration Chronicles. The article talks about using Wordpress to manage websites and I wanted to show people, using a screencast, how to install Wordpress. I came up with the idea for One Minute Wordpress as a novel idea to show off the power and speed of deploying a Wordpress install. In my attempts to speed through my installation, my best time was around 3 minutes. I needed to get rid of some of the inefficiencies in my method of installing.

I remembered an article on Hackaday called WordPress 2.7 upgrade in one line.

I read through the article and liked the curl method much better than the wget approach I was going to use.

So taking from the Chris Finke’s Twitter post I modified it to suit my One Minute Wordpress Installation.

Open the Terminal and ssh into your server:

ssh username yourserver.com
then type:

curl http://wordpress.org/latest.zip -o “wp.zip” && unzip wp.zip

This will download and unpack the latest Wordpress release. We’ll use the web based config tool to create your wp-config.php file.

O.K., so I solved the big issue, which eliminated my local computer from the equation and allowed me to download and unpack straight to the server. This shaved a huge chunk of time that was wasted on redundancy. I am still working on a solution so you can use a php script on your server to create the mysql database without needing to log in to your host’s webpanel. I’ll update the site oneminutewordpress.com as soon as I finish up on that side of things, but for now you can revel in the glory of a one minute manual Wordpress Install. Here’s a link to the site:

and the step by step instructions.

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