Package: wordpress Version: 4.6.1+dfsg-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: normal
Dear Maintainer, I'm a newbie to apache & wordpress, working with testing out wordpress in a virtual hosts configuration on my own box. After getting wordpress up and running, I found that a lot of basic functionality was not working correctly & it took me a while to track down the problem. It turns out that many wordpress packages require a permalinks setup other than the default to function. However, wordpress's ability to find it's own pages with permalinks other than the default seems to depend on apache2 having mod_rewrite enabled, which was not true of the default installation, & seemingly not well documented by wordpress, either online or on the debian system. Ideally this info should appear as part of a prominent README and perhaps be configured by the wordpress package installation. I understand that mod_rewrite may be considered a minor security risk, but seemingly one accepts that with the decision to use the wordpress package. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages wordpress depends on: ii apache2 [httpd] 2.4.23-4 ii ca-certificates 20160104 ii libapache2-mod-php 1:7.0+44 ii libapache2-mod-php7.0 [libapache2-mod-php] 7.0.10-1 ii libjs-cropper 1.2.2-1 ii libphp-phpmailer 5.2.14+dfsg-2 ii mariadb-client 10.0.27-1 ii php-gd 1:7.0+44 ii php-getid3 1.9.12+dfsg-1 ii php-mysql 1:7.0+44 ii php7.0 [php] 7.0.10-1 ii php7.0-gd [php-gd] 7.0.10-1 ii php7.0-mysql [php-mysqlnd] 7.0.10-1 Versions of packages wordpress recommends: ii wordpress-l10n 4.6.1+dfsg-1 ii wordpress-theme-twentysixteen 4.6.1+dfsg-1 Versions of packages wordpress suggests: pn mysql-server <none> pn php-ssh2 <none> -- no debconf information
