Lab 5 3 Setting up WordPress on LAMP - max-gallagher/SYS-360 GitHub Wiki

NOTE: For this Lab - you will use the LAMP server you configured in Lab 5-1 and 5-2

Install WordPress

• Download the latest version of Wordpress with the wget command below

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

• Unzip and unarchive the installation package

tar -xzf latest.tar.gz

Create a database user for WordPress installation

• Ensure the mariadb is running

• Login to your database using the root password we made in 5-2

mysql -u root -p

• Using the command guidelines below create a new user and password for your MySQL Database (replace wordpress-user and strong_password with username and password of your choice)

(Name of the user for this lab is max-wp)

CREATE USER 'wordpress-user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_strong_password';

• Create your database

CREATE DATABASE `wordpress-db`;

• Give your user that you made access to this new database

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `wordpress-db`.* TO "wordpress-user"@"localhost";

• Flush database to update with all of the new changes

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Create and edit the wp-config.php file

• Copy the wp-config-sample.php file to a file called wp-config.php

cp wordpress/wp-config-sample.php wordpress/wp-config.php

• Edit the wp-config.php and enter values for your installation

nano wordpress/wp-config.php

• Find the line that defines DB_NAME and change database_name_here to the database name that you created earlier

• Find the line that defines DB_USER and change username_here to the database user that you created earlier

• Find the line that defines DB_PASSWORD and change password_here to the strong password that you created earlier

• Find Authentication Unique Keys and Salts. "You can create unique values by visiting https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/Links to an external site. Links to an external site.to randomly generate a set of key values that you can copy and paste into your wp-config.php file"

• Install your WordPress files under the Apache document root

  • WordPress will run at your document root, so copy the contents of the wordpress installation directory

cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html/

• Allow WordPress to use permalinks

  • Open the httpd.conf file and find the section that starts with <Directory "/var/www/html"> and change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

• Install the PHP graphics drawing library on Amazon Linux 2

sudo yum install php-gd

Run the WordPress installation script with Amazon Linux 2

• Access your wordpress url by searching your public DNS address for the instance

• Fill out required info

• Click install wordpress

Deliverables

SUBMIT: Screenshot of Post-Install Wordpress Site.

SUBMIT URL to your Wordpress Site