Comments on: EasyWP WordPress Installer – Cause There Ain’t No Such Thing As “Too Easy”

By: Tamas

Tamas — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:20:31 +0000

Why do I get this always: Operation appears to have failed.
http://the-passive-house-magazine.info/easywp.php
I’ve tried on Chrome, FF, IE, and didn’t work.

By: charles

charles — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:33:33 +0000

You are so awesome! I used your easywp script and it did exactly what you said. Thank you so much for this and your cleaning from hacks article!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:07 +0000

Is this working for the current version of wordpress?

thanks, looks awesome!

By: Brazilian Master

Brazilian Master — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:59:40 +0000

this is great to make mult blogs

By: Alastair

Alastair — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:36:32 +0000

Hi Michael,

The script sounds useful. I’m commenting so I get notified if you update it for WP 3.x, let us know.

Cheers,
Alastair.

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:06:03 +0000

@Orbittechno – actually, it looks like it might not be, although I am not sure why. I will try and fix it in the next day or so.

By: Orbittechno

Orbittechno — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:24:44 +0000

Is it compatible with wordpress 3.0 ?

By: Music

Music — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:59:01 +0000

Thanks! This is very convenient, especially for those of us reselling hosting packages.

By: Michael VanDeMar

Michael VanDeMar — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:54:22 +0000

I can SSH in and manually change them from root, but that is not supposed to necessary. If I’m going to be using SSH, I might as well just use the wget command to download it. The whole point is to not use SSH.

Actually the point of this script is for people who do not have ssh access. Also, you’re not on a shared hosting environment, are you? If Apache is running as nobody, and php is running under that same user (as opposed to using some suexec solution) then I am pretty sure that would mean that all users would have access to every other users web directory via scripts.

EasyPHP already does what you suggest, by the way. It is a wrapper for shell commands, including wget and tar, that install WordPress for you very similarly to the way you would do it via ssh. I am not sure why you would not have permissions to the files afterwards.

By: Jarvis

Jarvis — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:16:35 +0000

My problem is what SE7EN was talking about. The installer uses PHP, which is run through apache, which has a different user (called “nobody” on my server) rights than me. So although the script works, afterwards, I can’t change any of the files since they now all belong to the that different user.

I can SSH in and manually change them from root, but that is not supposed to necessary. If I’m going to be using SSH, I might as well just use the wget command to download it. The whole point is to not use SSH.

I was thinking that maybe I could use invoke a shell script that would download WordPress and set it up, through php, and just edit your easywp.php, but I’m not sure if this would remain being that “nobody” user. Also, I would have to look up how to write shell scripts, which I don’t as of right now.

I also thought, since I saw it on another install script, http://wpquickinstall.com , that to use FTP and just ask for FTP to download it, then it would use my username and it would probably work. Unfortunately, this script fails right in the beginning with the FTP part, and the code is encrypted so I’m not sure how to do this. This I believe is similar to how WordPress asks you to enter FTP info when you want to update your plugins (on some servers).

Any help would be appreciated, maybe an update to use FTP? Thanks.