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I've been tinkering with getting WP re-installed for the past few weeks in order to get the blog you see before you today.

Basically I had to switch over from OpenBSD's  heavily modified Apache HTTPD server to the Apache2 server located in OpenBSD's ports.

This goes against OpenBSD's best practices by not using the heavily audited code base of Apache and running outside of a chroot jail. Unfortunatley I was having issues with Wordpress's Plugins page never loading for me(timing out, etc.) with no activity in the php logs as to why. The Plugins were so important for me because I had been hearing about the WP OpenID and FriendFeed plugins and I knew if I was going to have a blog, I would need those plugins.

If any OpenBSD admins are looking to get Wordpress working on their systems, this is what you have to look forward to:

1. Maintain  a new directory structure for the OpenBSD port of Apache2 under /var/apache2 & /etc/apache2
2. Recompile OpenBSD's port of php5 to use Apache2's apxs by modifying the Makefile for php5
3. Reinstall from bottom up php5 and all of it's extensions
4. Move or softlink your page file structures under /var/apache2 and reconfigure any vhosts. I've created a vhosts directory under /etc/apache2 and modified extras/httpd-vhosts.conf to point there.

Tags:   apache · apache2 · friendfeed · openbsd · openid · webserver · wordpressNo Comments