how to install wordpress on ubuntu 20.04 code example
Example: install wordpress ubuntu 20.04
Once the LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, and PHP)
installed and configured on the Ubuntu 20.04 server,
you can proceed further to download the latest version
of WordPress using the following wget command.
$ wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the archived
file using the tar command as shown.
$ tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
Next, move the extracted WordPress directory
into your document root i.e. /var/www/html/
and under your website as shown
(replace mysite.com with your website’s name or domain name).
The following command will create a mysite.com directory
and move WordPress files under it.
$ sudo cp -R wordpress /var/www/html/mysite.com
Now set appropriate permissions on the website
(/var/www/html/mysite.com) directory.
It should be owned by the Apache2 user and group called www-data.
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mysite.com
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/mysite.com
---- Creating a WordPress Database for Website ---
To get started, log into your MariaDB database shell using
the following mysql command with -u flag to supply the username
which should be root and -p to enter a password that you
set for the MySQL root account when you
installed the MariaDB software.
$ sudo mysql -u root -p
After login, run the following commands to
create your site’s database and a database
user with privileges as shown. Remember to
replace “mysite”, “mysiteadmin” and “SecureP@ssHere!”
with your database name, database username,
and the user’s password.
CREATE DATABASE mysite;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mysite.* TO 'mysiteadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'SecureP@ssHere!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT
Next, move into your website’s document root,
create a wp-config.php file from the sample
configuration file provided as shown.
$ cd /var/www/html/mysite.com
$ sudo mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
Then open the wp-config.php configuration file for editing.
$ sudo vim wp-config.php
and update the database connection parameters
(database name, database user,
and the user’s password created above)
---- Creating Apache VirtualHost for WordPress Website ---
Next, you need to configure Apache webserver to serve
your WordPress site using your fully qualified domain name,
by creating a Virtual Host for it under the Apache configuration.
To create and activate a new Virtual Host, create a new
file under the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory.
In this example, we will call the file mysite.com.conf
(it should end with the .conf extension).
$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.com.conf
Then copy and paste the following configuration
in it (replacing the ServerName and ServerAdmin
emails with your values).
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mysite.com
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save the file and close it.
Then check the Apache configuration
for syntax correctness.
If the syntax is OK,
enable the new site and reload the
apache2 service to apply the new changes.
$ apache2ctl -t
$ sudo a2ensite mysite.com.conf
$ sudo systemctl reload apache2
Also, disable the default virtual host to allow
your new site to load properly from a web browser.
$ sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
$ sudo systemctl reload apache2
The final section demonstrates how
to complete the WordPress installation
using the web installer.
So open your browser and navigate
using your site’s domain name:
http://mysite.com