The following instructions describe how I install WordPress on Ubuntu. The instructions may differ slightly for other server environments, but the basic principles should be the same. This requires shell access to the server, but once it’s finished the WordPress instance(s) should be capable of being administered through a web browser.<\/p>\n
Download WordPress and move it to Log into mysql:<\/p>\n Create a new database<\/p>\n Install WordPress, following the instructions at http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Installing_WordPress<\/a>. Remember to make a note of the username and password you set up for the admin account.<\/p>\n At one point in the installation you will need to issue the following command to manually create a config file.<\/p>\n Once WordPress is installed, navigate to This will ensure you can install plugins and themes through the WordPress web interface.<\/p>\n Log in using the account you just created.<\/p>\n Install and activate some plugins (Acunetix WP Security, Jetpack by WordPress.com and WordPress Importer), via the web interface in WordPress (if you’ve not issued the command above then this won’t work).<\/p>\n Navigate to the left hand menu item for Acunetix WP Security, tick all boxes and click on “update settings”. This will apply all recommended security changes.<\/p>\n Use WordPress Importer to import content (posts, tags, files) from other instances of WordPress.<\/p>\n Note: you won’t be able to activate Jetpack unless the server is visible on the public internet.<\/em><\/p>\n Remove the “Hello World!” post and the sample page (both should be obvious if they have not been removed!)<\/p>\n This allows you to run more than one blog\/site in a single instance of WordPress. The instructions at http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Create_A_Network<\/a> are good, and are mostly enough to get it up and running.<\/p>\n There are two more things to do on Ubuntu servers:<\/p>\n Enable Open Replace Enable Enable ssl<\/p>\n Amend apache config to enable pages to be served on port 443<\/p>\n Amend 80 config (e.g. 000-default.conf), to redirect to 443<\/p>\n Restart apache<\/p>\n Change domain in WordPress settings (through UI) to Request Certificate<\/p>\n Copy certificate somewhere sensible<\/p>\n Grab the certificate from home directory and save somewhere safe.<\/p>\n Do whatever you do in your organisation\/environment to generate\/buy\/get a root certificate.<\/p>\n Follow instructions at http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/73287\/how-do-i-install-a-root-certificate<\/p>\n Configure apache to use certificate<\/p>\n Restart apache<\/p>\n Browse to http:\/\/yoursite.com to check the certificate has been picked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following instructions describe how I install WordPress on Ubuntu. The instructions may differ slightly for other server environments, but the basic principles should be the same. This requires shell access to the server, but once it’s finished the WordPress instance(s) should be capable of being administered through a web browser. Part 1 – Installing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy.teknostatik.co.uk\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/var\/www\/html\/<\/code> so it runs from the root directory of the web server.<\/p>\ncd \/var\/www\/html<\/code>
\nsudo apt-get install unzip<\/code>
\nsudo wget http:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.zip<\/code>
\nsudo unzip latest.zip<\/code>
\ncd wordpress<\/code>
\nsudo mv * \/var\/www\/html\/<\/code>
\ncd \/var\/www\/html<\/code>
\nsudo mv index.html index.html_old<\/code><\/p>\nmysql -u root -p<\/code><\/p>\nmysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;<\/code>
\nmysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wp_user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY \"<password>\";<\/code>
\nmysql> exit<\/code><\/p>\nsudo nano wp-config.php<\/code><\/p>\n\/var\/www<\/code> (cd ..<\/code> or cd \/var\/www\/<\/code>) and issue the following command:<\/p>\nsudo chown -R www-data html<\/code><\/p>\n
\nPart 2 – Configuring WordPress<\/h3>\n
\nPart 3 – WordPress Multisite (optional)<\/h3>\n
mod_rewrite<\/code><\/p>\n a2enmod rewrite\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\/etc\/apache2\/apache2.conf<\/code> and find the part that says:<\/p>\n <Directory \/var\/www\/>\n Options Indexes FollowSymLinks\n AllowOverride None\n Require all granted\n <\/Directory>\n<\/code><\/pre>\nAllowOverride None<\/code> with AllowOverride All<\/code><\/p>\n
\nPart 4 – SSL (optional)<\/h3>\n
mod_rewrite<\/code> (if you’ve not already done it as part of step 3)<\/p>\nsudo a2enmod rewrite<\/code><\/p>\nsudo a2enmod ssl<\/code>
\nsudo a2ensite default-ssl.conf<\/code><\/p>\nsudo nano \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/default-ssl.conf<\/code><\/p>\n<VirtualHost _default_:443>\nServername yourdomain.com\nDocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\n\n#Enable\/Disable SSL for this virtual host.\nSSLEngine on\nSSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo nano \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/000-default.conf<\/code><\/p>\nDocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\nServerName yourdomain.com\nRedirect \"\/\" \"https:\/\/yourdomain.com\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo service apache2 restart<\/code><\/p>\nyourdomain.com<\/code><\/p>\nsudo mkdir \/etc\/apache2\/ssl<\/code>
\nsudo openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/yourdomain.key -out \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/yourdomain.csr<\/code><\/p>\nCountry Name (2 letter code) [XX]:GB\nState or Province Name (full name) []:West Midlands\nLocality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:Your city\nOrganization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:Your Company\nOrganizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:\nCommon Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:yourdomain.com\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo cp \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/yourdomain.csr \/home\/username\/yourdomain.csr<\/code><\/p>\nSSLEngine on\nSSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3\nSSLCertificateFile \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/yourdomain.com.cer\nSSLCertificateKeyFile \/etc\/apache2\/ssl\/yourdomain.key\n<\/code><\/pre>\nsudo service apache2 restart<\/code><\/p>\n