Server administration WordPress, quick install on CentOS

Underground Forum · May 7, 2023

What is wordpress?

WordPress is the most popular CMS (Content Management System) in the world.

# Install LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP)

sudo yum install httpd mariadb-server php php-mysql

# Install php-gd

sudo yum install php-gd

# Start Apache

sudo systemctl start httpd

sudo systemctl enable httpd

# Start the MySQL service

sudo systemctl start mariadb

sudo systemctl enable mariadb

# Next, set the MySQL root password

sudo mysql_secure_installation

# Log in to MySQL as the root user

mysql -u root -p

# Create a new database

CREATE DATABASE wp;

# Create a new user

CREATE USER wp_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

# Give wp_user permission to use the wp database

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp.* TO wp_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

# Confirm action

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

# Exit

exit

# Restart Apache

sudo service httpd restart

# Download the archive with the wordpress and extract it's contents to the directory /var/www/html/

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

yum install tar

tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

yum install rsync rsync-daemon

sudo rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/html/

mkdir /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads

# Transfer permissions to /var/www/html/ to the root user

sudo chown -R root:root /var/www/html/*

# Copy the wp-config-sample.php file under /var/www/html and save it as wp-config.php

cd /var/www/html

cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

# Open and uncomment the wp-config.php configuration file, write in it the data for connecting to your database and save.

define('DB_NAME', 'wp');
define('DB_USER', 'wp_user');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

# Allow Apache to serve requests over http: and https:

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https

# Restart firewall

sudo firewall-cmd --reload

WordPress will be available at:
http://[ip address]