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NOTE: You must have the LAMP stack installed before installing WordPress.

Create the WordPress database, user, and password

Now, create the database and user for your WordPress installation. You can replace WPdatabase, WPuser, and WPpassword with your own database name, username, and password in the following commands:

Now, flush the privileges and restart the service:

Download WordPress

Now, extract the compressed file to your home directory:

Configure WordPress

Begin by copying the sample config file into a new file:

Now open the file in Nano so that it can be edited:

Once you have the wp-config.php file open in Nano, go through it and replace wpdatabase, wpuser and dbpassword with the database name, username and password you created in the first step. Then save your changes and exit Nano.


Move WordPress to the web root and set permissions

Now that WordPress is configured, you will need to move the contents of the WordPress directory to your website's web root directory:

You will need to change to the web root directory now:

Now you must grant ownership of the directory to the Apache user (www-data):

Add the username you created in the first step of this guide to the group. Replace WPuser in the following with the username you created:

Finally, install a necessary module, php-gd:

Now complete the WordPress setup now located at http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/install.php, where 'yourdomain.com' is replaced with your actual domain.