Coactlab » internet experiments http://coactlab.com/blog A SoCal Based Technology and Design Firm Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:14:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Blooming Bods E-commerce Implementation & Designhttp://coactlab.com/blog/bloomingbods/ http://coactlab.com/blog/bloomingbods/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:34:33 +0000 Rob Edwards http://coactlab.com/blog/?p=276 This is a new website I just finished for BloomingBods.com.  This is a Shopify Hosted E-commerce Solution with a custom design done by me!

Blooming Bods

]]> http://coactlab.com/blog/bloomingbods/feed/ 0 One Minute WordPress – Websitehttp://coactlab.com/blog/1minwordpress/ http://coactlab.com/blog/1minwordpress/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:12:06 +0000 Rob Edwards http://coactlab.com/blog/?p=78 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.

  1. Eliminate going to the website, downloading and unpacking the install on my local computer, then uploading it to the server

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,  plus this used the rm command to remove a directory, which led me to come up with the final touch of deleting the wp-config-sample.php file in order to use the web based tool to create a new one.

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 && rm -rf ./wordpress/wp-config-sample.php

This will
download and unpack the latest WordPress release, then delete the
wp-config-sample.php so we can use the web-based creator later.

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 chuck on 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
Home
andthe step by step instructions.

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