Installing Lamp and Wordpress

Installing Lamp and Wordpress on Ubuntu 16.04, linux mint

Step 1: Update the System

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install Lamp Server

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

Step 3: Wordpress Database Initialization

sudo mysql -u root -p

Commands

CREATE DATABASE wordpressdb;

CREATE USER wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpresspassword' ;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpressuser@localhost;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES ;

exit

Step 4: Installing wordpress

cd /tmp

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

unzip -q latest.zip -d /var/www/html/

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress

chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress

mkdir -P /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads

open web browser

http://ipaddress/wordpress