1 Server Basic Configurations
Domain name :- localhost wordpress.lan
Step1 :- sudo nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost wordpress.lan
Step2 :- ping wordpress.lan
LAMP Installation
Step3 :- sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils php5 php5-mysql mysql-client mysql-server
Install PhpMyAdmin Web InterfaceStep4 :- sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Step5 :- sudo cp /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/
Step6 :- sudo mv /etc/apache2/conf-available/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf
Step7 :- ls /etc/apache2/conf-available/
Step8 :- sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin
Create a Virtual Host on Apache web server
Step9 :- sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName wordpress.lan
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Activate the new virtual host
Step10 :- sudo a2ensite wordpress.conf
Step11 :- sudo service apache2 restart
To avoid that future Apache error concerning Server Name FQDN
Step12 :- Sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Step13 :- ServerName wordpress.lan
Step14 :- sudo service apache2 restart
2 Create WordPress Database
Step15 :- mysql -u root -p
Step16 :- sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.6
Step17 :- sudo mysql_secure_installation
Using PhpMyAdmin
Point your browser to your server IP or virtual domain name and login to PhpMyAdmin using root account
Using Command Line
Step18 :- mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS wordpress;
mysql> CREATE USER cloudnetwork@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "your_password_here";
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO cloudnetwork@localhost;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit
3 Download and Install WordPress
Step19 :- wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Step20 :- sudo tar xvzf latest.tar.gz
Step21 :- sudo cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html
Step22 :- sudo service apache2 restart
Step23 :- sudo service mysql restart
Step24 :- sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html
Step25 :- sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html
http://wordpress.lan/index.php
http://your_server_IP/index.php
Step26 :- sudo chown -R root /var/www/html
