The TurnKey WordPress appliance is an easy-to-use, lightweight, installable Live CD of the WordPress publishing platform which can run on real hardware in addition to most types of virtual machines.
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It is one of the worlds most popular blog publishing applications, includes tons of powerful core functionality, extendable via literally hundreds of plugins, and supports full theming.
Default credentials:
* Webmin, SSH, MySQL, phpMyAdmin: username root, no password
- user sets password during installation
* Wordpress:
- username admin, password turnkey
-o username editor, password turnkey
* Wordpress DB: username wordpress, random password
- random password (and secret key) regenerated during installation (security)
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Here are some key features of "TurnKey WordPress Live CD":
· SSL support out of the box.
· Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
· PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
· Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP and MySQL.
· WordPress related
· Uploading of media such as images, videos, etc.
· Permalinks configuration supported through admin console (convenience)
· Automatic plugin upgrades are supported (convenience)
· Fixed password reset link bug (Debian #519798)
· Automatically install security updates directly from debian stable (security)
· Suppress annoying new version messages (irrelevant due to package being managed by APT)
· WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME are set automatically using HTTP_HOST
· Welcome post includes useful information and login credentials
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Installed security updates.
· Enabled etckeeper garbage collection by default.
· Upgraded to latest inithooks version (adhoc re-initialization via turnkey-init)
· VMWare build: run vmware-config-tools.pl on first boot
· Amazon EC2 EBS build: support resizing of root filesystem