how to Install wordpress Using LAMP or LEMP on RHEL, CentOS & Fedora

I will show you’ll how to install latestWordPress 3.7 on RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12 distributions.

 

Install WordPress 3.7 on RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12

Method A: Installing WordPress 3.7 for Apache on RHEL, CentOS & Fedora

This Method A installation guide shows you how to install latest WordPress 3.7 using LAMP setup on RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6/5.8 and Fedora 19,18,17,16,15,14,13,12.

Step 1: Downloading WordPress 3.7 for Apache

You must be root user to download the package.

# cd /tmp
# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Step 2: Extracting WordPress 3.7 for Apache

Once the download finishes, run the following command to untar it.

# tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html

Step 3: Creating MySQL Database WordPress

Connect to MySQL server and run the following commands to create database and grant privileges.

## Connect to MySQL Server & Enter Password (if any or leave blank)## 
mysql -u root -p
Enter password:

## Creating New User for WordPress Database ##
CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "your_password_here";

## Create New Database ##
create database wordpress;

## Grant Privileges to Database ##
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@localhost;

## FLUSH privileges ##
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

## Exit ##
exit

 

Please replace text a shown in Red color with your appropriate Database Name, User andPassword. These settings we will required later.

Step 4: Creating Apache VirtualHost for WordPress

Open the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf with VI editor.

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add the following lines of code at the bottom of the file. Replace the text shown in Red color with your required settings.

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerAdmin tecmint@tecmint.com
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
 ServerName wordpress
 ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress-error-log
 CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress-acces-log common
</VirtualHost>

Next, restart the Apache service to reflect changes.

# service httpd restart

 

Add the following line to /etc/hosts file.

127.0.0.1 wordpress

 

Step 5: Configuring WordPress Installation

Copy default wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php to configure WordPress installation.

# cd /var/www/html/wordpress
# cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

 

Open wp-config.php file.

# vi wp-config.php

 

Modify the following database settings as we created in the Step #3 above.

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

 

Step 6: Finishing WordPress Installation

Open your browser and type any of the following address.

http://wordpress/

http://localhost


http://your-ip

 

Now Install your wordpress

 

 

 

 

Another Method: Installing WordPress 3.** for Nginx on RHEL, CentOS & Fedora

Step 1: Creating WordPress Directories for Nginx

# mkdir -p /srv/www/wordpress/public_html
# mkdir /srv/www/wordpress/logs
# chown -R nginx:nginx /srv/www/wordpress

 

Step 2: Downloading and Extracting WordPress 3.7 for Nginx

cd /tmp
# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /srv/www/wordpress/public_html --strip-components=1

Step 3: Creating MySQL Database WordPress

Connect to MySQL server and run the following commands to create database and grant privileges.

## Connect to MySQL Server & Enter Password (if any or leave blank)## 
mysql -u root -p
Enter password:

## Creating New User for WordPress Database ##
CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "your_password_here";

## Create New Database ##
create database wordpress;

## Grant Privileges to Database ##
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@localhost;

## FLUSH privileges ##
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

## Exit ##
exit

 

Please replace text a shown in Red color with your appropriate Database Name, User andPassword. These settings we will required later.

Step 4: Creating Nginx VirtualHost For WordPress

If you’ve followed our LEMP guide these directories are already created. In case, if not then please create it by running these commands.

# mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
# mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

 

Add the following line of code to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file, After the line that says “include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf.

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

 

Next create Nginx virtualhost file for WordPress.

# vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

 

Add the following content to /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress file.

server png

 

Create symlink for sites enabled directory.

# cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
# ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

 

Restart the Nginx server to reflect changes.

# service nginx restart

 

Add the following line to /etc/hosts file.

127.0.0.1 wordpress

 

Step 5: Configuring WordPress Installation

Copy default wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php to configure WordPress installation.

# cd /srv/www/wordpress/public_html
# cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

 

Modify the following database settings as we created in the Step #3 above.

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

No install your WordPress .

 

how to Install wordpress Using LAMP or LEMP on RHEL, CentOS & Fedora