How to Install WordPress on Rocky Linux 10 with LEMP Stack

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WordPress is a powerful Content Management System (CMS) that enables users to build and manage websites with ease. In this guide, we'll walk through installing WordPress on Rocky Linux 10 with the LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP).

Prerequisites

Ensure the LEMP stack is installed and running:

• Nginx
• MariaDB
• PHP 8.4 (from Remi’s repo)

Click here to view the guide on How to Install LEMP Stack on Rocky Linux 10

Create the WordPress Database

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mysql -u root -p

Then run:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER 'admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Strongpassword@123';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'admin'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Install Required PHP Extensions

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dnf install php-mysqlnd

Restart services:

systemctl restart php-fpm
systemctl restart nginx

Configure Nginx

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mkdir -p /var/www/html/example.com/public_html
vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/example.com.conf

Paste:

server {
    listen         80;
    listen         [::]:80;
    server_name    example.com www.example.com;
    root           /var/www/html/example.com/public_html;
    index          index.html;

    location / {
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        include         fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Test and reload:

nginx -t
systemctl restart nginx

Download and Extract WordPress

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cd /tmp
curl -L -O http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
dnf install -y tar
tar xf latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress/* /var/www/html/example.com/public_html/

Configure WordPress

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cd /var/www/html/example.com/public_html/
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
vi wp-config.php

Update:

define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'admin' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'Strongpassword@123' );
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

Set Permissions

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chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/html/example.com/public_html
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/example.com/public_html

Finalize WordPress Setup

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Open in browser:

http://your_server_ip/ or http://example.com/

Click "Run the installation" and follow setup steps.