WordPress is a very popular PHP based CMS (Content Management System). For small businesses, personal/hobby websites, WordPress can be a lifesaver. In this article, I am going to show you how to install WordPress on CentOS 8. So, let’s get started.
yum install mariadb mariadb-server httpd httpd-tools php php-cli php-json php-gd php-mbstring php-pdo php-xml php-mysqlnd php-pecl-zip wget systemctl status httpd systemctl start httpd; systemctl enable httpd systemctl status httpd systemctl status mariadb systemctl start mariadb;systemctl enable mariadb systemctl status mariadb mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE wordpress; GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; quit cd /var/www wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar xvzf latest.tar.gz ; rm -v latest.tar.gz chown -Rf apache:apache ./wordpress/ chmod -Rf 775 ./wordpress/ vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/wordpress <Directory "/var/www/wordpress"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride all Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress_error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress_access.log common </VirtualHost>
httpd -t systemctl restart httpd