Wordpress

WordPress

Wordpress is the most popular way to build and host a website.

Install

# See Decyphertek - LEMP Stack docs , to prepare the base system. 
$ sudo mysql
<OR>
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
mysql> CREATE USER 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost';
mysql> exit
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y php-curl php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-zip
$ sudo systemctl restart php*fpm
# Not working, troubleshooting
$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name localhost;
    root /var/www/wordpress;
    ssl_certificate      /etc/ssl/certs/self-signed-crt.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/ssl/private/self-signed-key.pem;
    ssl_session_cache    shared:SSL:1m;
    ssl_session_timeout  5m;
    ssl_protocols        TLSV1.1 TLSV1.2 TLSV1.3;
    ssl_ciphers  HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }
}

server {
        location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
        location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }
        location ~* \.(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
            expires max;
            log_not_found off;
        }
}

$ sudo nginx -t
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -LO https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
$ cp /tmp/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /tmp/wordpress/wp-config.php
$ sudo mkdir /var/www/
$ sudo cp -a /tmp/wordpress/. /var/www/wordpress
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress
$ curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
# Add generated values
$ sudo nano /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php

. . .
define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');
. . .
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' );

/** MySQL database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'wordpressuser' );

/** MySQL database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password' );
. . .
define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );

# Go to new webpage and setup. 
https://server_domain_or_IP/wordpress

References

https://wordpress.org/download/
https://wordpress.org/support/article/how-to-install-wordpress/
https://www.linuxcapable.com/install-wordpress-with-nginx-mariadb-php-on-ubuntu-22-04-lts/
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-install-a-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-22-04/
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-20-04