Install WordPress on Debian VPS

Today we will show you how to install WordPress on a Debian VPS using Apache web-server and MySQL database. WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. Currently WordPress is the most popular of the blogging platforms available. Before you begin installing, please make sure you have Apache/PHP and MySQL installed on your WordPress VPS .

 

Download wordpress

wget -q -O - "http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz" | tar -xzf - -C /var/www --transform s/wordpress/your-wp-site.com/

The above command will download and extract the WordPress archive file in the /var/www/your-wp-site.com directory

Change permissions

chown www-data: -R /var/www/your-wp-site.com

 

Create MySQL database

mysql -u root -p
 CREATE DATABASE yourwpdb CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON yourwpdb.* TO yourwpuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourwpdbpass';
 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

 

Apache virtual host

Open/create a new file

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/your-wp-site.com

Add the following content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName your-wp-site.com
 ServerAlias www.your-wp-site.com
 DocumentRoot /var/www/your-wp-site.com
 DirectoryIndex index.php
 <Directory /var/www/your-wp-site.com/>
   Options FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
 </Directory>
 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
 CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

The command below symbolically links your virtual host file from sites-available to the sites-enabled directory.

a2ensite your-wp-site.com

Restart Apache with the following command:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Finally, open up your browser, navigate to http://your-wp-site.com and finish the installation wizard.

* This guide should work on on most Debian based systems including Ubuntu.

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