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In this lab, we installed and configured a WordPress site on the blog01 machine

Lab11 - WordPress on Linux

{% embed url="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-centos-7" %}

  • connect blog-01 to network (you should be good at this by now)
  • remember DNS!
  • install Apache
  • install MySQL
curl -sSLO https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el7-11.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh mysql80-community-release-el7-11.noarch.rpm
sudo yum update
sudo yum install mariadb-server
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl status mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation
ENTER PASSWORD AND CONFIGS
mysql -u root -p
  • configure WordPress database

{% code overflow="wrap" fullWidth="false" %}

CREATE DATABASE wordpress
CREATE USER nathan@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO nathan@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

{% endcode %}

  • install PHP
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
yum install yum-utils
yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74
yum update
sudo yum install php php-gd php-mysql
php -v
  • install WordPress
sudo service httpd restart
cd ~
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
sudo rsync -avP ~/wordpress/ /var/www/html/
sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/*
  • configure WordPress
cd /var/www/html
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
nano wp-config.php