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+ | #Check the ftp server is running: ps -aux | grep ftp | ||
+ | #Restart the ftp server if not: service vsftpd start | ||
+ | #Go to http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/blog/wp-admin/plugin-install.php and choose the plug in | ||
==Useful resources if there are errors== | ==Useful resources if there are errors== |
Revision as of 18:15, 24 February 2017
Log in to: http://www.mcnaircenter.org/blog/wp-admin/
Contents
Install FTP server
Log in and sudo su yourself, then:
apt-get install vsftpd
Man page for the vsftpd.conf file
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html
Securing the FTP:
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/ftp-server.html
Configuration
Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf (note next restart will reflect changes in /etc/init)
#add at tend of file: listen_port=26
Generate keys for our website with the following command:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /etc/vsftpd.pem -out /etc/vsftpd.pem
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Texas Locality Name (eg, city) []:Houston Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:McNair Center at Rice University's Baker Institute Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:McNair Center Email Address []:admin@mcnaircenter.org
Edit /etc/vsftpd.conf again
#change the lines as follows: rsa_cert_file=/etc/vsftpd.pem rsa_private_key_file=/etc/vsftpd.pem write_enable=YES chroot_local_user=YES chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list ssl_enable=YES
Edit /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list to contain a list of usernames (e.g., ravali)
Restart the server
service vsftpd restart
The FTP server should be accessible. Beware local packet shaping. Connect through mcnaircenter.org:26. Otherise have a check that the process is running and listening:
ps -aux netstat -lnt
Assuming all is good with the FTP server, we now need to update Wordpress.
Update Wordpress
First make a copy of the wordpress folder and dbase
cp -R /var/lib/wordpress/ /var/lib/wordpress_bak mysqldump -u mcnair_wp -p wordpress > backup_12Aug2016.sql (enter password for dbase found in wp-config.php)
Change the permissions on every in the wordpress folder and make www-data its owner:
chown -R www-data /var/lib/wordpress chmod -R 755 /var/lib/wordpress
Browse to 128.42.44.180/blog/wp-admin Click update now. Enter:
Hostname 128.42.44.180:26 FTP Username ravali (or some other account) FTP Password Connection Type FTPS (SSL)
Leave the Akismet plugin Go to appearance, themes -> add new
Choose Accesspress Lite 2.46.7 Activate
Install all of the recommended pluggins that come with the theme
Check the media library works by uploading a file (e.g., GreenRoundLogo.png)
Create a child theme
cd /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/themes mkdir accesspress-lite-child vi accesspress-lite-child/style.css Add in the template from the parent folder's style.css (just the top of the file) Update the theme name and text domain to accesspress-lite-child. vi accesspress-lite-child/functions.php Add in the section that never changes <?php function my_theme_enqueue_styles() { $parent_style = 'parent-style'; // This is 'twentyfifteen-style' for the Twenty Fifteen theme. wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array( $parent_style ), wp_get_theme()->get('Version') ); } add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' ); ?>
Check the permissions on the new files:
chown -R www-data /var/lib/wordpress chmod -R 755 /var/lib/wordpress
Active the child theme! Check out what it looks like: www.mcnaircenter.org/blog
Customize our theme
Middle Section
The middle area of the blog's home page as three sections -
The Twitter Feed
This widget will display the top 5 tweets of the McNair Center's twitter account.
- In the Appearance -> Widgets section, the theme has the middle section sidebar.
- Add the AccessPress-lite Twitter feed widget to the middle section sidebar
- Log into dev.twitter.com with the McNair Center's creds.
- Paste the security keys, consumer keys, etc identifying the McNair Center API into the form of the widget.
- Set/reset the number of blog posts that are required
Categories
This is a built in widget from wordpress that is being used in this section.
Custom Widgets
Add a custom (text/html) widget from the widgets to put in the 'Contact Us' and social media icons.
Requirements
Design
Styling
Header
Sidebar
Image Uploads
- Images uploaded, both attached to posts and unattached, are added to the media library.
- They are categorized in the backend per the month and the year in which they are uploaded.
- Plugins involved:
- Enhanced Media Library
- This plugin allows us to
- create new categories
- assign images to categories
- filter in the media library section by category
- This plugin allows us to
- Enhanced Media Library
- Pixabay
- This plugin allows us to
- find images from Creative Commons
- add these images for each post - the Pixabay button can be seen next to the Add Media button on the create post screen.
- This plugin allows us to
- Pixabay
Content
Blog Posts
Titles
Author Info
Usability Features
RSS
Subscription Rules
User Accounts
Adding pluggins
- Check the ftp server is running: ps -aux | grep ftp
- Restart the ftp server if not: service vsftpd start
- Go to http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/blog/wp-admin/plugin-install.php and choose the plug in
Useful resources if there are errors
Wordpress:
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended#Step_9:_Run_the_WordPress_upgrade_program
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-45-error-after-update
- https://help.webcontrolcenter.com/kb/a992/vsftpd-ftp-server.aspx
FTP Issues: