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WorkPress is the most popular CMS in the market. You can build your own website on top of that and you need only web server. In this article Im going to explain how to deploy WordPress application on your Ubuntu server. So I use AWS Ubuntu box which is under Free tier for this.
Setup Cloud Server
Create an account on AWS cloud service using below link.
https://aws.amazon.com/console/
Select AWS region nearest to your country.
In main window, Click on EC2 and then in detail page, click on Instances.
Now click on Lunch Instance and you will get a page to create Server. In there, click on Free tier only checkbox and it will show all boxes available on free tier. For this article I have chosen Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type which has 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM and 8GB SSD storage.
Other than, all option select as default value and remember to choose Auto-assign Public IP Enabled. Because We need a public IP to access website from your PC.
At the end, you have to download the SSH key pair, later you can use to login to web server using terminal.
Setup WordPress – Few Steps to follow
Install and Configure Apache 2
First update all packages in virtual machine using below command.
sudo apt update
Install Apache Web Server on it using below command
sudo apt install apache2
After install Apache server, you grab the Public IP from the AWS Server and type on your browser. http://<public id> . So you will see the apache server home page. If you face any issue, then follow below step to skip the firewall.
Troubleshoot
By default Ubuntu comes with UFW firewall. so you have to configure some rules if you can’t access apache home page.
Execute below command to see UFW application profiles
sudo ufw app list
You will see result something like this.
Available applications: Apache Apache Full Apache Secure OpenSSH
To allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic for Apache Full profile, execute below command.
sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"
You can test it using your bowser http://<public id>
Install MySQL
To install mysql, execute blow command
sudo apt install mysql-server
To open mysql terminal, execute below command
sudo mysql
You can set a password for the root user using the command below
mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'Your Password';
To apply changes immediately, execute below command
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Install PHP
Execute blow command to install basic module for running php page.
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
Install Additional PHP extensions for WordPress using the command below.
sudo apt install php-curl php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-zip php-soap php-intl
To test the php is working or not, you can execute below command to create test.php file
sudo nano /var/www/html/test.php
It will open up text editor and add these lines into it and save.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Now in your bowser, type this url http://<public id>/test.php. if everything configured properly. You will get PHP information page.
Setup MySQL for WordPress
Login into MySQL Terminal,
mysql -u root -p
It will prompt password to enter, if everything is ok, you will be in MySQL terminal.
To Create new Database, execute below command.
mysql> CREATE DATABASE <New Database name> DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
Create separate user for that database, so that WordPress will use that user to access the database. This is more about security concern.
To create new user, execute below command
mysql> GRANT ALL ON<Database name>.* TO 'NewUserName'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'NewPassword';
To propagate changes immediately,
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Install WordPress on Ubuntu
Configuration on Apache
To redirect all request to new website, you have to edit site config file.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Change DocumentRoot /var/www/ to new folder you going to create for website.
Now You can enable the mod_rewrite to use the WordPress permalink feature. This can be done using
sudo a2enmod rewrite
After these config changes, execute below command to restart the apache service
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Deploy WordPress site
Execute below command to create folder in tmp and download WordPress package from WordPress.org
cd /tmp curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Extract files using
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
.htaccess which is a hidden file used to configure additional features for websites hosted on Apache Web Server.
Create file using below command and add few lines onto it.
sudo nano /tmp/wordpress/.htaccess
Add below lines and Save it.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPressTo rename wp-config-sample.php file, execute below command.
mv /tmp/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /tmp/wordpress/wp-config.php
Now all files are ready to copy into www folder. For that execute below command.
sudo cp -a /tmp/wordpress/. /var/www/wordpress
Grant permission on apache server to access this folder
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress
Also grant permission you to access this folder using execute below command.
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
Also you need to generate WordPress salt and place that info in wp-config.php file.
To generate salt
curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
define('AUTH_KEY', 'Q?5II IiN`Q L+[wE@&Zkt;Ge`e_Smfrt~asL6``C#O3%O6jZX=YO71&*+qTg /C');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '}i5TP0m~M?GVkd_06LUXNQD&UU_RCz*Xhg+m##?2UsD/e|dk-=zIPaGPXhFeC@-M');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'dzsF)dAkstzrA3hdnLN^Yi|#Go>h6X&dccS$YUS:.4_knIk?{S~-t>)oU8+YR|q9');
define('NONCE_KEY', 'bH--dT*@6z?4kglB/#++=+2f2yFe<ufF}-{)>ZU : :`M=Aai^ZF<%-&oMDZ(J&0');
define('AUTH_SALT', 'L7 urD`;c(ZhC*|J;&6B6Fl=-A0JT)e-6g{6~-P(45(*O e(!j+:=_*<]?0ty&T$');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '*FNX>9SoKo;M,[ctz*X?M:fGn$*R?.UP$DkxnrkldB8R;g+x$]?sR.q_c%[!q-ox');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'I)TKb5+liM:uhJSw:Zz)@y9AM4!Jr`h/2W[!`@d*-<6H9[:Tz;@<V]u+%L@B-F2f');
define('NONCE_SALT', 'i:jpB[cxA|9M}([=go|73?7C5V/~lnQl(>/T5CMPIBYhl/i(lb)-/`g=6*-6uuMB');You need to copy and past over to wp-config.php file using below command.
sudo nano vi /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php
Also you need to update the database connection in wp-config.php file.
define('DB_NAME', 'NewDatabaseName');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'NewUser');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'NewPassword');
Add following line at very bottom of wp-config.php file
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
Now save wp-config.php file.
To restart apache server
sudo systemctl restart apache2Congratulation !, now you have configured WordPress side in cloud server, to access web site in your browser type http://<public id>
Wrap Up
Now you know how to setup WordPress website on Ubuntu Server. You can find many amazing plugins and features on https://wordpress.org/plugins/
