This post will help you to Setup and Install Wordpress on Ubuntu 20.04 for Free.
How to Install Wordpress on Ubuntu 20.04
WordPress is one of the very popular and demanding content management system (CMS) over the internet world. It helps us to create a Beautiful, Flexible, SEO friendly, Responsive, Customizable blogs or websites with the support of MySQL at the backend and PHP. user can easily manage and administrate everything related to the websites through browser that is available as a web frontend.
In order to have the complete wordpress installation, we would need to install Apache, MySQL, Php, Wordpress on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux Servers. We call this in short as LAMP Stack.
Install required dependencies
use apt-get command to update and install the required dependency packages.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo apt-get update
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo apt-get -y install apache2 ghostscript libapache2-mod-php mysql-server php php-bcmath php-curl php-imagick php-intl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml php-zip
Install Wordpress on Ubuntu
Get latest wordpress package directly from the official site as below rather than installing the wordpress available in apt package repository.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo mkdir -p /var/www
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo chown www-data: /var/www
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ curl https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz | sudo -u www-data tar zx -C /var/www
Configure Apache for Wordpress
Let's create a apache configuration file for our wordpress site with below contents.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress
<Directory /var/www/wordpress>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride Limit Options FileInfo
DirectoryIndex index.php
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/wordpress/wp-content>
Options FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Enable the site using the command a2ensite.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo a2ensite wordpress
Enabling site wordpress.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Also enable URL rewriting using the command a2enmod.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl restart apache2
We dont need the default site anymore, hence disable it.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo a2dissite 000-default
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
systemctl reload apache2
Restart Apache service for the changes to take effect.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo service apache2 reload
Configure MySQL Database for Wordpress
Lets's create and configure MySQL database for Wordpress.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo mysql -u root
mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'adminpass';
Query OK, 1 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,ALTER ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@localhost;
Query OK, 1 rows affected (0.02 sec)
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0,00 sec)
mysql> quit
Bye
Once database is created, start the mysql service.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo service mysql start
Integrate MySQL Database with Wordpress
In order to integrate and connect wordpress to MySql database, we need to create a configuration file. But we have sample files available already, we can just copy and make the necessary changes as per our request.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo -u www-data cp /var/www/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
Lets add our database and user details in the configuration file. Here just replace the highlighted word as per your details.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo -u www-data sed -i 's/database_name_here/wordpress/' /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo -u www-data sed -i 's/username_here/wordpress/' /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo -u www-data sed -i 's/password_here/adminpass/' /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
Now be careful with the below steps as this is very important to make sure our site is not vulnerable from any attacks.
We need to get authentication tokens, secrets and values from the link given below and that has to be replaced properly.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
define('AUTH_KEY', 'v;,s)d)ha@Jo!88!n~F/p(5`:f[yn1!5;*LytDfpmP]H!p&OUo[w`Fc/U{iIzu^r');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'ejrWb!-|44Tku}p5Twpm{++F/yLbC(mUxTJF@oeRD,{#p9~u[LlH,rtG>sm4ytrF');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'RAd=H6G& ?[_4ovX5`Hv:r?8r-G]=?MPXgKhEC<0h2Nky51=8Ii_+?1iRHK_IH E');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'ss#A|3~Ozs14yMWFp5K^z)+ %_RA!8Lfwzkp!qK]gFfqev*|Py//{3f:R{t`EyP*');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'xB ,+05Ar@A]!=>cy(=E3|R3Jy.fP9_PK(vEyNPd}RWcs5:c`K.)(uNf/Wj,Myw|');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'OeR6G~?/^r! _S2}y2oo4y>?xw4K~*0{x{Auz)>gsku&{(;T#Temi*fIDB%^e$<{');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'G{5%YgSaTr6~g/^+Ll:oA{3M#1j&WZIA5f$$xX<>NjP+s:Q8`*2Vl,ME wzvINfK');
define('NONCE_SALT', '}A8Ucv*b)5i|9*y;3nYSKJCaH[CL 8)^I=4P3u?H:_+Pl2kehq{>Wq.q0?kipzJT');
Above command gives you all the values required for the configurations.
Lets open the configuration file wp-config.php.
Find each values and replace the values with the above output.
selva@wordpress-hosting:~$ sudo -u www-data vim /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
Once the values are replaced, save and exit from the configuration file.
Configure Wordpress
Thats it, we are done with wordpress installation on Ubuntu.
Open the browser and enter http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 to access our wordpress site.
You will be welcomed with Wordpress dashboard where you just follow the instructions to setup your login details to access your Wordpress Dashboard.
Hope this post helped you to Install Wordpress on Ubuntu 20.04.
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