WordPress

Wordpress on Ubuntu

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Setup & Install LAMP

sudo apt update -qq && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y lamp-server^
sudo apt install -y php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip php-imagick wget
sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo a2dissite 000-default

Config MySQL

Default from the install above root has no password and is unsecure for the moment to just type sudo mysql then do each below and alter the usernames, password, and database names to your desire. So the example below the mysql datadase is wpdb, the mysql user is wpdbuser, and the password for that mysql user would be changethispassword

CREATE DATABASE wpdb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'wpdbuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'changethispassword';
GRANT ALL ON shop.* TO 'wpdbuser'@'%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

then run sudo mysql_secure_installation

Install Wordpress

cd /tmp
curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
touch /tmp/wordpress/.htaccess
cp /tmp/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /tmp/wordpress/wp-config.php
mkdir /tmp/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade
sudo mkdir /var/www/wp
sudo mkdir /var/www/wp/ssl
sudo mkdir /var/www/wp/html
sudo cp -a /tmp/wordpress/. /var/www/wp/html
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wp/html
sudo find /var/www/wp/html/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/wp/html/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;

WP Config

Fix details laters

curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
sudo nano /var/www/wp/html/wp-config.php
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

Apache HTTPS Setup

Create PEM files

cd /var/www/wp/ssl
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -nodes -x509 -days 3650 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem

Create apache2 file enter sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wp.conf then Copy+Paste the following then CTRL+X then Y then Enter to save.

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    <VirtualHost _default_:443>
        ServerName shop.sarimoko.com
        ServerAdmin travis@sarimoko.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/wp/html/
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /var/www/wp/ssl/cert.pem
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /var/www/wp/ssl/key.pem
        <Directory /var/www/wp/html/>
                AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
        <FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
            SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
        </FilesMatch>
        <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
            SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Then run

sudo a2ensite wp
sudo service apache2 reload