WordPress is a popular Content Management System (CMS) used to create websites and blogs. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing WordPress on Elementary OS Latest.
Visit the official WordPress website (https://wordpress.org/) and click on the "Download WordPress" button.
Alternatively, you can use the following command in your terminal to download WordPress:
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
This will download the latest version of WordPress as a compressed archive.
Once the download is complete, extract the compressed archive using the following command:
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
This will extract the WordPress files to the current directory.
Before we can install WordPress, we need to create a MySQL database for it to use. You can do this by logging in to your MySQL server and running the following commands:
mysql -u root -p
This will log you in to MySQL as the root user. You will be prompted to enter your MySQL root password.
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Replace "password" with a secure password of your choice.
Next, we need to configure WordPress to use our MySQL database. Rename the "wp-config-sample.php" file to "wp-config.php".
cd wordpress
mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
Open the "wp-config.php" file with your favorite text editor and add the following lines:
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
define('DB_USER', 'wordpressuser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
Replace "password" with the same password you used in Step 3.
Move the extracted WordPress files to your web server's root directory.
sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html
The web server needs to have write permissions on some WordPress directories to allow it to create and modify files as needed. Grant write permission to the "wp-content" directory.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
In your web browser, navigate to "http://localhost/wordpress" and you will be greeted by the WordPress installation wizard. Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
You have successfully installed WordPress on Elementary OS Latest. You can now use WordPress to create your own website or blog!
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