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setting up wordpress in freebsd 10.1 with apache24, php56 and mysql56

Posted March 27, 2015 3.3k views
MySQL Apache PHP WordPress FreeBSD

Hi:

I have followed the instructions for your freebsd tutorials. I have set up apache24, and I can see the “It works” page. I am trying to set up wordpress. I have follwed this tutorial:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-apache-on-freebsd-10-1

When I go to the site to setup wordpress, I get a blank page, and this error message in httpd-error.log:

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ‘xxx/wp-includes/load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/share/pear’) in xxx/wp-settings.php on line 21

My complete installation is from ports.

Thanks

PD: I did delete the “it works” file

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  • asb March 31, 2015
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    Hi! The first thing I would check are the file permissions on wp-includes/load.php Does the www user have access to it?

  • gutiersa May 27, 2015
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    I ended up rebuilding php56. I think the issue was the links to modules and dependencies. I then also rebuild apache24 and it worked. Now I am having a different problem.

    I upgraded to apache 2.4.12 release, and now I get the 403 forbidden error, you don’t have permission to access /

    ???

  • gutiersa May 28, 2015
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    Thanks for your reply:

    yes.
    It has to do with apache itself. It is attempting to server from ServerRoot, rather than from DocumentRoot.
    I figured it out by temporarily changing this:

    <Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
    </Directory>

    to this:

    <Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all granted
    </Directory>

    and adding the it works index.html file to it. then I went to the browser and entered:

    http://www.mysite.com/
    http://www.mysite.com/index.html

    and of course “It worked”

    I have gone over this over and over and can’t figure it out. Why is apache ignoring my main server configuration?

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ryanpq June 7, 2016

This question was answered by @gutiersa:

Thanks for your reply:

yes.
It has to do with apache itself. It is attempting to server from ServerRoot, rather than from DocumentRoot.
I figured it out by temporarily changing this:

<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>

to this:

<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all granted
</Directory>

and adding the it works index.html file to it. then I went to the browser and entered:

http://www.mysite.com/
http://www.mysite.com/index.html

and of course “It worked”

I have gone over this over and over and can’t figure it out. Why is apache ignoring my main server configuration?

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