Dave points to news that WordPress 1.2 is released. I happen to have “famp” installed on a garage server and decided to give it a try. WordPress has a simple web-based installer that initially failed because I hadn’t granted the database user permission to create tables. To grant permission you have to log as someone who has permission to grant permission (root). My poor mysql instance was so little used that I actually forgot the root password. Here’s how you reset a forgotten mysql root password. Thanks to Scott for helping me figure out the correct granting syntax (“grant privilege on database.* to user@host;”) and for the various mysql pointers. After that it was pretty smooth sailing. Maybe 45 minutes start to finish for a vanilla installation, including finding and reading the installation docs. I haven’t had chance to do much of a test drive. I’ll write more when I do.