This is a set of plugins, themes, and configuration files for jQuery's website infrastructure, which is powered by WordPress. It is designed as a custom content directory. So think of web-base-template as your wp-content directory.

1. Configure your local webserver with a virtual host that covers the relevant jQuery domains, such as *.jquery.com and *.jqueryui.com, all pointing to the same root. For example, in Apache:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName dev.jquery.com
   ServerAlias *.jquery.com *.jqueryui.com *.jquery.org *.qunitjs.com *.sizzlejs.com *.jquerymobile.com
   DocumentRoot "/srv/www/jquery"
   </VirtualHost>
   

2. Configure your /etc/hosts file to point dev.jquery.com, dev.jqueryui.com, etc. to your local machine. For example:

   127.0.0.1 dev.jquery.com dev.api.jquery.com dev.plugins.jquery.com dev.blog.jquery.com dev.learn.jquery.com
   127.0.0.1 dev.jqueryui.com dev.blog.jqueryui.com dev.api.jqueryui.com
   127.0.0.1 dev.jquery.org dev.qunitjs.com dev.api.qunitjs.com dev.sizzlejs.com dev.jquerymobile.com dev.api.jquerymobile.com
   

   Be sure to flush your DNS when you are done. On a Mac, that would be dscacheutil -flushcache.

3. Place the WordPress core files in the document root you chose. (Don't install it.) You can do this any number of ways:

   • Download the latest version from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
   • Check out the latest tag from http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/
   • Clone the official WordPress Github mirror at http://github.com/wordpress/wordpress/

4. Clone web-base-template into place, so you have a file tree that looks like this:

   web-base-template/
   wp-admin/
   wp-content/
   wp-includes/
   index.php
   ...
   

5. Copy web-base-template/wp-config-sample.php and move it up one directory, to wp-config.php. Fill in your database credentials.

6. Create an .htaccess file with the following content into that same document root:

   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
   
   RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
   RewriteRule ^resources/(.*) gw-resources/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L]
   
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
   RewriteRule ^ - [L]
   RewriteRule . index.php [L]
   

7. Go to http://dev.jquery.com and walk through the standard WordPress installation. web-base-template includes a special install script that will initialize the entire network.