With regard to the config file, how are you creating it? Can you open up the Terminal App from Utilities and type:
ls -l /fullpathtowordpress/wp-config.php
e.g.
ls -l /ServiceData/Web/wordpress/wp-config.php
(-l is a lowercase L)

Post the output here.

With regard to creating a SQL user. I use either phpMyAdmin or Webmin – both provide a web based GUI for managing MySQL

I have done what you said, but I am have trouble getting my WordPress site up and running, I got to the point where WordPress tries creates a WP-config.php file, it makes me copy the text and create my own, which I do. But then it does not recognize the file I make and keeps asking me to create on, even showing a web page displaying the config file date to any that go to the URL, which is not cool like my passwords and stuff. So I have to change the config files’ name, at which point it asks for all the data needed to create a config file again.

I have a feeling this may have to do with permissions, but I don’t really know what that is or how to change it.

I would also like to know how to create another MySQL log-in besides root so I don’t have to use root.

Scoopz

I recently bought the new Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard Server (SLS) installed to take over from my Mac Pro. Setting up SLS was much easier than I thought and I have two websites hosted on their successfully including a wordpress site. Which seems fully operational BUT I cannot utilise the auto-update plugins/themes feature.

I have enabled the FTP service, added the folder hosting the site as an Alias and that eliminated the “Cannon find wp content folder error” and it now finds the folder correctly, it downloads the updates, unpacks into the update folder, deletes the old version but then fails trying to copy the updated files back to the plugin directory.

I don’t know what else to do. If I FTP from a normal FTP client I can read and write to the plugins directory perfectly.

Has any body come across this before?

Scoopz

I've installed wp-super-cache and it seems to work now.

Thanks for your help!
Javier

This one took a long time to figure out, alot of late nights and hairpulling and so on!

I have narrowed it down to be the way that OS X Server handles HTTP Header caching, it is totally fine and works really good on static content and alot of dynamic content to but for some reason WordPress doesnt play so well with it!

Go to your Sites folder in /etc/apache2/sites and open the text file that corresponds to your WordPress domain (make sure you have write permissions in that folder)

Once you open the file you will se the <directory “folder”></directory> directive

Inside the <directory> directive simply add these lines:

Header Set Cache-Control “max-age=0″
<FilesMatch “.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|mp3|mp4)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “public”
Header set Expires “Thu, 15 Apr 2011 20:00:00 GMT”
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch “.(js|css)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “public”
Header set Expires “Thu, 15 Apr 2011 20:00:00 GMT”
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

The first line will remove the OS X Server Header caching and the FilesMatch function will then add back Header Caching to files that you want to cach directly, if you dont use the FileMatch function nothing will be cached!

So if you wanna use caching for your PHP files just install wp-super-cache and now EVERYTHING will be cached right, atleast for me it does!

So if this works for you, please reply back so i can start using this workaround in a bigger scale!

Regads,
Javier

If i login on my WordPress site i get redirected to the WordPress Admin section as usual, but when i go back to my homepage i am not logged in, its only when i refresh my browserwindow i am logged in, i dont think it is a cookie problem on my computer since a couple of my other websites that is running on Ubuntu is doing fine!

I wonder if OS X Server is caching in a wrong way, i have removed the caching modules in Server Admin but it behaves the same!

Have you encountered this problem or have any suggestions of what could be wrong?

Thank you

Thank you for your help and this guide is really great for setting up WordPress on OSX SL Server

I am by no means an expect on MySQL and I prefer to use phpmyadmin rather than the command line. There is a WordPress plugin for this and once you have in installed you can use a web browser to configure the privileges.

http://wordpress.designpraxis.at/plugins/wp-php…

“MySQL said: Host ´192.168.0.199´ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server”

Anyone know what i should do?

You will need to use Terminal (In Utilities) and a command line editor. I would use vi but if you are unfamiliar with command line editors, you might find pico easier to use.

Launch Terminal

Make a backup copy of the file before you change it

sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini /private/etc/php.ini.bak
(you will need to enter your password.)

Then open the file in pico:

sudo pico /private/etc/php.ini

Scroll down until you get to the line you need to change and make the necessary changes.

Then press
[CTRL]o
[Enter]
[CTRL]x