A Windows user can install EasyPHP to use WordPress locally and develop new themes for it. A WordPress theme designer often, don’t want use many resources for Apache installation under linux, because he would only install CMS to make a Theme Design for it.
In this post, we will see how to do this job under Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10.

Brief introduction to NanoWeb Server

NanoWeb server is a light web server for linux written entirely in php. NanoWeb Server is specially design for little website that don’t need Apache as webserver. So, with NanoWeb Server we have a locally installation of our preferred CMS to test it without expensive consume of resources.

Install and configure NanoWeb Server, PHP5 and MySQL5 on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

apt-get update
apt-get install nanoweb php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-cgi php5-mysql mysql-server mysql-client

Optionally you can install nanoconfig to configure NanoWeb Server:

apt-get install nanoweb-nanoconfig

edit /etc/nanoweb/nanoweb.conf and uncomment this:
#Alias = /nanoconfig/ /usr/share/nanoweb-nanoconfig/

We have to restart nanoweb to reload configuration file:
/etc/init.d/nanoweb restart

Now, we can open our browser using URL http://127.0.0.1/ to see NanoWeb Server in action!

Install WordPress to have finally our Development Platform for Themes

First of all we have to download WordPress 2.3 files in /var/www/nanoweb :
cd /var/www/nanoweb
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

cd /var/www/nanoweb/wordpress
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

edit wp-config.php

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere’); // …and password

Now, we can run http://127.0.0.1/worpress and complete installation.
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DEMO: http://themes.crashlab.net/index.php?wptheme=Geek+Blog

README.txt
GEEK BLOG theme is released as free and you can modify every parts of graphics to
customize theme for your needs. There is a limitation about footer.
This theme is sponsered, and for this reason you cannot modify footer.
copyright ThemesLive.com 2007
If you want use a textual title for your header, you can edit CSS and
delete: “visibility: hidden;” on .title class
.title {
visibility: hidden;
}
Also you must change “background: url(‘images/bgheader.png’);” in
CSS id #header, using “background: url(‘images/bgheader2.png’);” that
is the header image without title “GEEK BLOG” as graphic component.
I hope you enjoy with this theme

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