This guide is probably not necessary, but more for my reference. WordPress is extremely simple to install and their guides are easy to follow. But here we go!
Note: WordPress does not get installed, its downloaded and moved somewhere Apache can serve it. This makes it very easy to have multiple WordPress installs on one server!
Pre-Req: LAMP
PHP 5.6 or greater MySQL 5.5 or greater The mod_rewrite Apache module
Create MySQL DB:
mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE [DB_NAME]; CREATE USER [DB_USERNAME]@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '[DB_PASSWD]'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [DB_NAME].* TO [DB_USERNAME]@localhost; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;
Install:
cd ~ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar xzvf latest.tar.gz sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y php-gd libssh2-php cd ~/wordpress && sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php && sudo chown root:root * -R && sudo nano wp-config.php sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart
wp-config.php:
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', '[DB_NAME]');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', '[DB_USERNAME]');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '[DB_PASSWD]');
Now just move the Directory to wherever you want Apache to serve it from. I like to move it high up my file tree and symlink into Apache. But you could just
mv * /var/www/html/