I have followed those, and at the moment I have got a little further, but still not there.
What I have done so far is:
Installed MariaDB from Entware.
Installed php8-fpm and php8-pdo-mysql from Entware
Installed Fastcgi from Entware.
Edited lighttpd.config to point to fastcgi in Entware
This now gives me the error 'No input file specified.' when I point my browser at any PHP script on lightpd, so I am obviously closer now than I was, but still need to iron out that error.
When I ask 'php-fpm -m' it now shows all modules, so I was querying the wrong PHP (The DD-WRT one).
OK, I have wiped down and started afresh to check the procedure works, and this is what I did to get Wordpress up and running.
Firstly I already had lighttpd up and running.
Then with a freshly formatted USB stick one partition in ext4 called optware and one 2gb partition as a swap partition (MariaDB wouldn't run for me without swap) I then followed the instructions for installing Entware.
Then ran the initial MySQL setup which does set off some warnings about InnoDB being disabled, and failing to set memory, but it ran regardless.
Code:
mysql_install_db --force
Then edit /opt/etc/mysql/conf.d/50-server.cnf with the following lines under the [mysqld] section to fix the output errors from above.
Code:
# skip InnoDB initialization
skip-innodb
# set default storage engine to MyISAM instead
default-storage-engine = myisam
Then after a reboot I was able to set a password for MySQL (you can read up about changing usernames and passwords, but I mearly set a password for the root user)
Then I logged in using, which then prompts you for the password you have set.
Code:
mysql -u root -p
Now I created the database I will use with Wordpress
Code:
mysql> create database my_first_database;
mysql> grant all privileges on my_first_database.* to root@localhost identified by 'desired_mysql_password';
mysql> quit
Then I have gone into lightpd.conf and added the path to fastcgi and its socket
OK, I have wiped down and started afresh to check the procedure works, and this is what I did to get Wordpress up and running.
Thanks for sharing. I followed you steps and I was able to get MariaDB working.
Catches that saved my a**:
MariaDB wouldn't run for me without swap : mysql_install_db --force returned "Segmentation fault" because I didn't have Linux Swap partition. I resized & created the 2GB swap partition (took 3hrs), after that no more seg fault. Before seeing your post, I also remember seeing someone mentioning about swap file while Google-ing, but I'm lazy to dig up the details to see what's the minimum space to allocate to swap partition.
skip InnoDB initialization & set default storage engine to MyISAM instead : this definitely saved me a lot of time. Is is because of ddwrt or because of Entware?
For my own notes, I am finding PHP8 a tiny bit buggy with a few plugins, so I may have a look at downgrading back to PHP 7.4.30, which is what most commercial webservers still appear to be using.
For my own notes, I am finding PHP8 a tiny bit buggy with a few plugins, so I may have a look at downgrading back to PHP 7.4.30, which is what most commercial webservers still appear to be using.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2022 10:25 Post subject:
IONK wrote:
I've looked for the way to downgrade to PHP7, I still don't know how to do that yet. At the moment, my colleague helps me to temporarily fix the compatibility issue on the go, just for testing the new project codes, but it will be good to have a way to run Entware's PHP7 on ddwrt.
Well you can compile PHP 7 from source codes, but it's possibly not what you want.
I'm unable to find a way to add nor change Entware repository, and I doubt whether there are repositories carrying old packages.
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