WordPress install on Ubuntu

I’ve downloaded bitnami-wordpress-2.5.1-3-linux-installer – and have chmod 755 it. So what do I do now? I double click it and Ubuntu tells me:

“Couldn’t display ”/home/martin/Documents/Softw…s-2.5.1-3-linux-installer.bin”.
“There is no application installed for this file type”

I’ve verified it has executable permissions. I’m new to Ubuntu (Linux in general) – so I need help.

Hi,

Try to execute from the terminal, it should be run:

Applications->Accessories->Terminal
$ ./bitnami-wordpress-2.5.1-3-linux-installer.bin

Cheers

Thanks! That did it. But once the installer is running and gets to the MySQL Information area, I get: “It seems you do not have enough permissions to bind to the port or the port is already taken by another application. Please select another one.”

Any thoughts?

Yes, as the page says “Select another one”. So try 3307 for example. This is happening because you already have a MySQL server running

Perfect. Thanks, it works!!!

Ok, now it’s not working, but I just want to remove it and reinstall from scratch. How do I remove this? I cannot find the actual install folder, or where the MySQL stuff is for removal. I’m new to Linux (Ubuntu).

Hi Martin,

There’s an uninstaller in the installation folder, which is located by default at your home directory.

Cheers

And I unfortunately deleted it before I could run the uninstaller ;-/

Don’t you worry, as the stacks are completely self-contained, deleting the folder just does the trick. However, you will need to stop the servers manually (or simply reboot the machine).

Installing again to /opt/ – thanks for all the help!