How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04
WordPress is one of the most popular website-building tools available out there. It is a simple way to get your online presence and perfect for those who do not know how to code and want a simple and effective way to share and build your story on the internet.
Prerequisites:
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Root access to your Ubuntu 22.04 server.
- LAMP Stack installed and running. Learn how to setup LAMP Stack.
Creating Database
Log into MySQL with the following command.
mysql -u root -p
First, we'll create a new database.
CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;
Next, create a new MySQL user account that we will use to operate on WordPress's new database, with the username "wordpress_user".
CREATE USER 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Link the user and DB together by granting our user access to the database.
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress_db.* to wordpress_user@'localhost';
Flush the privileges so that MySQL knows about the user permissions we just added.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit out of the MySQL command prompt by typing.
exit
Output:
root@crown:~# mysql
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 81
Server version: 10.6.7-MariaDB-2ubuntu1 Ubuntu 22.04
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.003 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.005 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress_db.* to wordpress_user@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.003 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.003 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye
Download and install WordPress
Download Wordpress.
wget -O /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Unzip the downloaded WordPress file.
tar -xzvf /tmp/wordpress.tar.gz -C /var/www/html
Change the permission of the site directory.
chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/html/wordpress
Navigate to your browser.
Start a WordPress installation by clicking on the Run the installation button.
Provide the requested information.
Once WordPress is installed log in with your new user credentials.
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