{"id":1396,"date":"2011-10-03T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2023-06-23T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T12:56:25","slug":"how-to-install-serendipity-blog-on-centos-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/how-to-install-serendipity-blog-on-centos-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Serendipity blog on CentOS 5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity is a PHP blog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. It is very simple application and very easy to install. In this post, i will guide you on how to install the serendipity on CentOS 5.5 with apache, mysql and php installed.<\/p>\n<p>Steps :<br \/>\n1. Download the package.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<pre class=\"code\">\n[root@server www]# pwd\n\/var\/www\n[root@server www]# wget http:\/\/cdnetworks-kr-2.dl.sourceforge.net\/project\/php-blog\/serendipity\/1.5.5\/serendipity-1.5.5.tar.gz\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2. Extract the tar file<\/p>\n<ol>\n<pre class=\"code\">\n[root@server www]# tar xzvf serendipity-1.5.5.tar.gz\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n<p>3. Create the database as below<\/p>\n<ol>\n<pre class=\"code\">\nmysql> CREATE DATABASE serdb;\nmysql> CREATE USER 'seruser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'serpassword';\nmysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON serdb.* to seruser@localhost ;\nmysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'seruser'@'localhost';\n<\/pre>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Database type : MySQL<br \/>\nDatabase host : localhost<br \/>\nDatabase user : seruser<br \/>\nDatabase password : serpassword<br \/>\nDatabase name : serdb<\/p>\n<p>4. Run the installation wizard as below.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/yourdomain.com\/serendipity\/index.php.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" title=\"Serendipity\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1.png\" alt=\"Serendipity\" width=\"666\" height=\"292\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 666px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 666\/292;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. Proceed to the installation wizard until below page.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" title=\"Serendipity\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yyoAn_rVceQ\/ToiESYNJqwI\/AAAAAAAAAkQ\/nxC7I4c4qL8\/s1600\/2.PNG\" alt=\"Serendipity\" width=\"652\" height=\"267\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 652px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 652\/267;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity is a PHP blog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. It is very simple application and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1246,1536,1752],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","tag-centos-5-5","tag-linux","tag-serendipity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/howto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}