How to install WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.

Formally, WordPress is a free and open-source content management system(CMS) which is being used by billions of people across the web to run blogs and dynamic websites.

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WordPress is easy to install & learn. Those who can not afford hosting and domain registration this article can be perfect for you. In this article we’re installing wordpress on localhost so you do not have to worry about hosting and domain you can try those features in localhost.

1. My SQL Setup For WordPress

In the previous article, We already installed mysql server and now we’re installing mysql client by running following command.

sudo apt-get install mysql-client

Now The database server deployment is not yet secure, for this reason, issue the following command to harden it’s security:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Now after running mysql_secure_installation you’ll be asked to validate_password now type y/yes in my system I already set up so I’m not changing the default and if you do not want default password press n/no.

2. Install WordPress

Download the latest WordPress Package and extract it by running following command.

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded packages using tar command given below.

tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz

Move extracted packages to /var/www/html/ by running following command.

rsync -av wordpress/* /var/www/html/

Set correct permission on the website directory, that gives ownership of the wordpress files to the web server as follows

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/

3. Create Database For WordPress

Open terminal, Goto mysql shell and enter password you set up previously. Command for opening mysql is given below.

mysql -u root -p

Now enter root password and press Enter , My SQL shell is now ready to use. Create database for your WordPress by running following command.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE wp_linuxblog;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp_linuxblog.* to 'your_username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Your_Password_Here';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT;

Creation of database is now successful. Goto /var/www/html/ directory and move wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php where wp-config-sample.php is a default and another one we’re going to create/move it from existing, by running following command.

mv wp-sample-config.php wp-config.php

then update it with your database name, password under wp-config.php

fig. wp-config setup

Set Up as shown in figure after you’ve done that restart the web server and mysql service using the commands below:

service apache2 restart
service mysql restart

Now Open up the web browser and Goto http://localhost now you get the welcome page below. Read through the page and click on “Let’s go!” to proceed further and fill all requested on screen information .

I Hope that everything went on just fine, you can now enjoy WordPress on your system. However, if you’ve occurred any problems let us know in the comments. That’s it in this article good day 🙂