Already installed LAMP or LEMP (Nginx with PHP, Mysql) on your Ubuntu Server? This time I’m going to show you how to install WordPress CMS.

WordPress is a popular blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It’s free and open-source.

To install WordPress, first login your Ubuntu Server as root, then follow the steps below:

1.) Create Mysql Database and User for WordPress.

• First log into Mysql as root user:

  mysql -u root -p

Type in the root password to get past.

• Create a database. Change database-name in code to whatever you want.

  CREATE DATABASE database-name;

• Create an user. Change database-user in code to whatever you want.

  CREATE USER database-user@localhost;

• Give a password to the user just created. Change password-here in code.

  SET PASSWORD FOR database-user@localhost= PASSWORD("password-here");

• Grant all privileges to the new user.

  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database-name.* TO database-user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password-here';

• f.) Finally, refresh Mysql:

  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

• g.) Exit Mysql sell

  exit

2.) Download WordPress and setup the configuration.

• Download the latest wordpress:

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

  Then extract:

  tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

• Copy the sample configuration file to make a backup.

  cd wordpress && cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

• Edit the configuration file:

  vi wp-config.php

  Press I to start editing, Esc to stop editing. Press :, then type wq to save and exit, type q! to exit without save.

  Then change the section of database-name, database-user, password-here.

  // ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
  /** The name of the database for WordPress */
  define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database-name’);

  /** MySQL database username */
  define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database-user’);

  /** MySQL database password */
  define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password-here’);

3.) Setup the permissions.

Give ownership of the directory to the apache or nginx user by running following commands one by one:

sudo rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/
cd /var/www/
sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R 
sudo usermod -a -G www-data username

4.) Finally in your browser go to IP or domain/wp-admin/install.php and start installing.

Enjoy!