I’ve tried installing WordPress several times (like over 5) now in Ubuntu with apt-get. Before each attempt, I do an apt-get –purge remove wordpress, then drop the database and delete the wordpress user from mysql.
When I install, I’ve tried various combinations of the setup-mysql script, as well as instructions from the wordpress site. What happens is that I have three locations for wp-content related directories:
/var/lib/wordpress
/usr/share/wordpress
/srv/www/wp-content
I’m not sure the proper configuration I should be using for my Apache directives.
The symptom of the problem is that upgrading plugins, or installing anything through the wordpress admin web panel results in errors such as:
could not install plugin, resulting in fatal error
could not upgrade, can not create directory
I’ve tried various permissions, going so far as 777, and chowning everything to www-data:www-data.
There must be a simple concise set of directions somewhere to get this set up properly.
