Suggested method for installation on cPanel/WHM CentOS 6.7 Servers

[brianjking]

Is there an installation method that you suggest using specifically for servers running cPanel/WHM on CentOS 6.7 x86_64?

Thanks!

[chazmcgarvey]

Two ideas, depending on your preference and needs:

CPAN method:

cpanm --sudo App::WordPressTools
# or
cpanm --sudo https://github.com/bluehost/wp-tools/archive/dist-1.0.tar.gz

Perhaps build an RPM:

# something like this:
cpantorpm --install-type site App::WordPressTools

I haven't used the RPM method and am not sure how complete the generated RPMs from cpantorpm are, but it may be useful in cases where RPMs are easier to deal with than CPAN.

Just FYI: I'm also working on a fat-packed version (for curl/wget installation), mostly meant for those interested in getting started quickly without having to install cpanm or mess around with Perl modules.

[brianjking]

@chazmcgarvey

Using CentOS 6.7 on a Liquidweb server I'm seeing this error when attempting to install. Suggestions?

[root@lw ~]# cpanm --sudo https://github.com/bluehost/wp-tools/archive/dist-1.0.tar.gz -bash: cpanm: command not found [root@lw ~]#

[chazmcgarvey]

To solve that, you'll need to install cpanm (see https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus#installation).

Alternatively, you can actually use any CPAN client, like cpan (which you are likely to already have installed on your system). The tricky bit is that cpan usually needs to be configured before it can really be used, and many people find that process confusing. But it is an option.

If you don't have cpanm and you're unfamiliar with installing software using the normal CPAN module, I would actually recommend you just follow the instructions for downloading just the executable (https://github.com/bluehost/wp-tools#downloading-just-the-executable), and then optionally copy the file to /usr/local/bin/ if you need it in a system directory.

[chazmcgarvey]

I am closing this issue in preparation for archiving.