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Install WordPress On Ubuntu Server

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Install WordPress on Ubuntu server with the terminal in 5 easy steps

1) Update Ubuntu packages

Use apt to update and upgrade ubuntu dependencies

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y

2) Install apache server, MariaDB, php php-mysql php-cli php-common php-gd

sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client php php-mysql php-cli php-common php-gd -y

3) Download, extract, copy to var/www/html and change ownership of WordPress

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
sudo cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html
#remove index.html (apache default index file)
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/index.html

4) Setup MariaDB

sudo mysql_secure_installation

5) Login to MySQL and create database

sudo mysql -u root -p

create database wordpress;
create user "admin"@"%" identified by "password"
grant all privileges on wordpress.* to "admin"@"%"

access your IP or domain name and fill the database details and install WordPress

Watch full tutorial on youtube

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