WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) used to create websites and blogs. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install WordPress on POP! OS Latest, step-by-step.
Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Visit the WordPress website at https://wordpress.org/ and download the latest version of WordPress. Extract the files from the downloaded archive to a directory of your choice. In this tutorial, we will extract the files to the directory /var/www/html/wordpress.
WordPress requires a database to store its data. We will use MySQL as our database server. If you don't have MySQL installed, install it using the following command:
sudo apt install mysql-server
Once MySQL is installed, log in to MySQL server using the following command:
sudo mysql -u root
Create a new database for WordPress using the following command:
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
Create a new user and grant privileges to the newly created database using the following commands:
CREATE USER 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace the password with a strong password of your choice.
Exit the MySQL prompt using the following command:
exit
Rename the file /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and edit it using your favorite text editor.
Find the following lines in the file:
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'database_name_here' );
/** MySQL database username */
define( 'DB_USER', 'username_here' );
/** MySQL database password */
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here' );
Replace the database_name_here with the name of the database you created in step 2. Replace the username_here and password_here with the username and password you created in step 2.
Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost/wordpress. You should see the WordPress installation page.
Select your language and click on the Continue button.
Enter the details for your website, including the title, username, and password.
Click on the Install WordPress button.
Once the installation is complete, you should be redirected to the WordPress login page.
Enter the username and password you created in Step 4 and click on the Login button.
You should now be logged in to your WordPress website.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install WordPress on POP! OS Latest. If you followed the steps above, you should now have a working WordPress website up and running on your system.
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