Web Platform Installer 2.0: Installing PHP Apps

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You can read other posts of this series on Web PI 2.0 here:

In this post I’m going to explore the most important feature for the version 2.0 of the WebPI: now you can install the most popular Open Source applications for both ASP.NET and PHP directly from the installer.

Installing WordPress (PHP)

You can use the Web Applications’ tab to choose your preferred ones, you can navigate by category or by name, for example. In the following pictures I’ve select WordPress:

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You can now press install and you’ll be redirected to a summary page where the installer show all dependencies needed to run WordPress. Because I haven’t installed MySQL, the Web PI 2.0 will install it for me and even other components as the URL Rewrite module. I really love this feature!! The following is an image of that one:

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I’m guided, inside the installer, to the process of installing the software.

First I need to set the password for MySQL’s root account as show below:

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Than I need to enter some site information, so, for example, Web Site name in step 1, as show below:

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And some information for creating and configuring the database:

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And at the end of installation you can run your application from the Launch Link and you have the first screenshot of WordPress installation page:

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As you have briefly seen you could easily use the Web PI both for installing and configuring your environment and for installing your preferred apps in some simple steps.

Enjoy.