WordPress is a popular content management system used to build websites and blogs. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WordPress on Kali Linux, the popular penetration testing operating system.
Before installing WordPress on Kali Linux, ensure that you have the following:
First, download the latest version of WordPress from the official website at https://wordpress.org/. You can either download it directly from the website or use the command line:
sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
This will download the WordPress package as a compressed file.
Next, extract the WordPress package using the following command:
sudo tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
This will extract the WordPress files to the current directory.
WordPress requires a MySQL or MariaDB database to store its data. To create a new database, enter the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE wordpress;"
You will be prompted to enter the root password for MySQL.
Create a new user and grant them full access to the WordPress database with the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';"
Replace wordpressuser and password with the desired username and password for the user.
To configure WordPress, move the extracted files to the Apache web server root directory using the following command:
sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html/
Next, navigate to the WordPress directory and rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php:
cd /var/www/html/wordpress/
sudo mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
Edit the wp-config.php file and update the database credentials with the following commands:
sudo nano wp-config.php
Find the following lines:
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );
Replace the database name with wordpress, the username with wordpressuser, and the password with the user's password.
Set the correct file permissions and ownership for the WordPress directory using the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress/
Start the Apache and MySQL servers using the following commands:
sudo systemctl start apache2
sudo systemctl start mysql
You can now access the WordPress installation wizard by navigating to http://localhost/wordpress in your web browser. Follow the prompts to complete the installation process.
In this tutorial, we demonstrated how to install WordPress on Kali Linux. By following these steps, you can now use WordPress to create your own website or blog on your Kali machine.
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