Time for action – using the TurnKey Wordpress virtual appliance

In this exercise, I'll show you how to download, import, and use the TurnKey Wordpress virtual appliance in your own virtual machine.

1. Open a web browser window, go to http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress, and scroll down until you locate the VM link. Click on it:

   

2. After a few seconds, you will be taken to the Sourceforge website, and a file download dialog will show up. Select the Save option to save the Wordpress virtual appliance file to your computer, and wait for it to download through your web browser.

3. Once the download completes, go to the directory where you downloaded the Wordpress file, and unzip it. The following screenshot shows the file's contents after unzipping it:

   

4. As you can see, the Wordpress virtual appliance consists of six files: one .ovf file, several .vmdk files, and one .vmx file. Now open VirtualBox to continue.

5. Once the VirtualBox main screen shows up, select File | Import Appliance from the main menu.

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