How to Install WordPress with LAMP on CentOS 7

WordPress is an open source and most widely used software for blogging, content management software, websites etc. It’s written in PHP and used MySQL/MariaDB for database.

This article describes How to Install WordPress with LAMP on CentOS7.

[[email protected] ~]# yum install –enablerepo=remi-php73 php Loaded plugins: fastestmirror ……………………. Installed:   php.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi Dependency Installed:   libargon2.x86_64 0:20161029-3.el7       php-cli.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi       php-common.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi       php-json.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi Complete! [[email protected] ~]#

[[email protected] ~]# yum install –enablerepo=remi-php73 php-mysqlnd Loaded plugins: fastestmirror ……………………. Installed:   php-mysqlnd.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi Dependency Installed:   php-pdo.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi Complete! [[email protected] ~]#

[[email protected] ~]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or g. Your MariaDB connection id is 12 Server version: 5.5.64-MariaDB MariaDB Server Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type ‘help;’ or ‘h’ for help. Type ‘c’ to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> create database wordpress; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]>

MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on wordpress.* to [email protected] identified by ‘w0rdpr$55’; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.03 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> quit Bye [[email protected] ~]#

[[email protected] ~]# yum install –enablerepo=remi-php73 php-gd Loaded plugins: fastestmirror ……………………. Installed:   php-gd.x86_64 0:7.3.15-1.el7.remi Dependency Installed:   dejavu-fonts-common.noarch 0:2.33-6.el7   dejavu-sans-fonts.noarch 0:2.33-6.el7   fontconfig.x86_64 0:2.13.0-4.3.el7   fontpackages-filesystem.noarch 0:1.44-8.el7   gd-last.x86_64 0:2.2.5-10.el7.remi        jbigkit-libs.x86_64 0:2.0-11.el7        libtiff.x86_64 0:4.0.3-32.el7        libwebp7.x86_64 0:1.0.3-1.el7.remi Complete! [[email protected] ~]#

[[email protected] ~]# cd /tmp [[email protected] tmp]# curl -O   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed< span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   Time    Time     Time  Current                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed 100 11.8M  100 11.8M    0     0   384k      0  0:00:31  0:00:31 –:–:–  591k  [[email protected] tmp]# ls -ltrh latest.tar.gz -rw-r–r–. 1 root root 12M Feb 27 22:10 latest.tar.gz [[email protected] tmp]#

[[email protected] tmp]# tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz ………………………. wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.php wordpress/wp-admin/themes.php wordpress/wp-admin/options-reading.php wordpress/wp-trackback.php wordpress/wp-comments-post.php [[email protected] tmp]# cd wordpress/ [[email protected] wordpress]# cp -r * /var/www/html/ [[email protected] wordpress]# cd /var/www/html/ [[email protected] html]# ls index.php    readme.html      wp-admin            wp-comments-post.php  wp-content   wp-includes        wp-load.php   wp-mail.php      wp-signup.php     xmlrpc.php license.txt  wp-activate.php  wp-blog-header.php  wp-config-sample.php  wp-cron.php  wp-links-opml.php  wp-login.php  wp-settings.php&nbs p; wp-trackback.php [[email protected] html]#

[[email protected] html]# mkdir -p wp-content/uploads [[email protected] html]#

[[email protected] html]# chown -R apache:apache * [[email protected] html]#

[[email protected] html]# cp -p wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php [[email protected] html]# vi wp-config.php <?php ……………………….. /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define( ‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); /** MySQL database username */ define( ‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpress’ ); /** MySQL database password */ define( ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘w0rdpr$55’ ); …&hellip ;…………………. [[email protected] html]#

[[email protected] html]# systemctl restart httpd [[email protected] html]#