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How To Install WordPress On Ubuntu 20.04

Now I want to share how to install WordPress on ubuntu 20.04 server. WordPress is an most popular opensource CMS. You can install on your vps or local server using my tutorial.

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My server info :
Server IP : 10.66.11.15
Disk : 25 GB
RAM : 1GB
vCPU : 2
Service : WordPress
Web : Apache
Database : Mariadb
Php : 7.4

Step #01: Check server version and ip address.

root@WordPress:~# lsb_release -a
root@WordPress:~# ip r

Step #02: Server update & install web server and database.

root@WordPress:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
root@WordPress:~# apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils -y
root@WordPress:~# systemctl enable apache2
root@WordPress:~# systemctl start apache2
root@WordPress:~# apt install mariadb-server -y
root@WordPress:~# systemctl enable mariadb
root@WordPress:~# systemctl start mariadb
root@WordPress:~# mysql_secure_installation

Press y| Y Y press enter

Do you want to continue press y|Y Y press enter

Remove anonymous user press y|Y Y press enter

Disallow root login remoetly y|Y Y press enter

Remove test database and access to it y|Y Y press enter

Reload privilege tables now? y|Y Y press enter

Step #03: Install php and check properly working.

root@WordPress:~# apt-get install php7.4 php7.4-mysql libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-cgi php7.4-gd -y
root@WordPress:~# vi /var/www/html/tech.php

Insert below code into tech.php file.

 //PHP code goes here

Browse your server ip address with file name tech.php

http://10.66.11.15/tech.php

Step #04: Download latest WordPress and setup permission.

root@WordPress:~# wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
root@WordPress:~# tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
root@WordPress:~# rsync -av wordpress/* /var/www/html/
root@WordPress:~# chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/
root@WordPress:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
root@WordPress:~# rm -rf /var/www/html/index.html

Step #04: Create database for install WordPress.

root@WordPress:~# mysql -u root -p

If you not setup mysql root password from step #2 last command. So it is default password is blank.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database wp_db;
MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on wp_db.* to 'wp_db_user'@'localhost' identified by 'wp_db_passw0rd';
MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
MariaDB [(none)]> q

Step #05: Create wp-config.php file from original file.

root@WordPress:~# mv /var/www/html/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/wp-config.php
root@WordPress:~# vi /var/www/html/wp-config.php

Now insert below details already created from Step #4.

define('DB_NAME', 'wp_db');
define('DB_USER', 'wp_db_user');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wp_db_passw0rd');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Restart apache and mariadb server and check default vHost file is ok.

root@WordPress:~# systemctl restart apache2.service
root@WordPress:~# systemctl restart mariadb.service
root@WordPress:~# vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Like example below

       ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
       DocumentRoot /var/www/html
       ServerName server_domain_name_or_IP

       AllowOverride All

       ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
       CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Step #06: Rewrite enable and create htaccess file and setup permission.

root@WordPress:~# a2enmod rewrite
root@WordPress:~# systemctl restart apache2
root@WordPress:~# touch /var/www/html/.htaccess
root@WordPress:~# chown :www-data /var/www/html/.htaccess
root@WordPress:~# chmod 664 /var/www/html/.htaccess
root@WordPress:~# service apache2 restart

Now browse your server ip address and complete installation process.