WordPress Module

Overview

This will set up an installation of Wordpress 3.5 on Debian and Redhat style distributions.

Capabilities

Installation includes:

• Configuration of WordPress DB connection parameters
• Generate secure keys and salts for wp-config.php.
• Optional creation of MySQL database/user/permissions.

Requires:

• Configuration of php-enabled webserver
• Configuration MySQL server
• PHP 5.3 or greater

Parameters

• install_dir
  Specifies the directory into which wordpress should be installed. Default: /opt/wordpress

• install_url
  Specifies the url from which the wordpress tarball should be downloaded. Default: http://wordpress.org

• version
  Specifies the version of wordpress to install. Default: 3.5

• create_db
  Specifies whether to create the db or not. Default: true

• create_db_user
  Specifies whether to create the db user or not. Default: true

• db_name
  Specifies the database name which the wordpress module should be configured to use. Default: wordpress

• db_host
  Specifies the database host to connect to. Default: localhost

• db_user
  Specifies the database user. Default: wordpress

• db_password
  Specifies the database user's password in plaintext. Default: password

• wp_owner
  Specifies the owner of the wordpress files. Default: root

• wp_group
  Specifies the group of the wordpress files. Default: 0 (*BSD/Darwin compatible GID)

• wp_lang
  WordPress Localized Language. Default: ``

• wp_plugin_dir
  WordPress Plugin Directory. Full path, no trailing slash. Default: WordPress Default

Example Usage

Default deployment (insecure; default passwords and installed as root):

class { 'wordpress': }

Basic deployment (secure database password, installed as wordpress user/group):

class { 'wordpress':
  wp_owner    => 'wordpress',
  wp_group    => 'wordpress',
  db_user     => 'wordpress',
  db_password => 'hvyH(S%t(\"0\"16',
}

Externally hosted MySQL DB:

class { 'wordpress':
  db_user     => 'wordpress',
  db_password => 'hvyH(S%t(\"0\"16',
  db_host     => 'db.example.com',
}

Disable module's database/user creation (the database and db user must still exist with correct permissions):

class { 'wordpress':
  db_user        => 'wordpress',
  db_password    => 'hvyH(S%t(\"0\"16',
  create_db      => false,
  create_db_user => false,
}

Install specific version of WordPress:

class { 'wordpress':
  version => '3.4',
}

Install WordPress to a specific directory:

class { 'wordpress':
  install_dir => '/var/www/wordpress',
}

Download wordpress-${version}.tar.gz from an internal server:

class { 'wordpress':
  install_url => 'http://internal.example.com/software',
}