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Hi Folks! this is my first post and in this article I am going to share a helpful knowledge with you. Basically, I have installed and configure the website you’re viewing on Microsoft Azure platform on a Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine.
So, I am writing this article for you if you’re also planning to create your own website with WordPress by using LAMP packages.

Apache Installation:

First of all, make sure that all the packages on your installation of Ubuntu are up to date.
# sudo apt-get update

To install Apache2 on Ubuntu, run the commands below:
# sudo apt install apache2

Now, Start and enable apache2 service

Go to browser and type the name of domain name or ip:

Install MySQL Database Server

Next, we need to install MySQL database server by running the command below:
# sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server

Then, start and enable Mysql service:

After that, run the commands below to secure Mysql DB server by creating a root password and disallowing remote root access.
# sudo mysql_secure_installation

When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
New password: Enter password
Re-enter new password: Repeat password
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

After that, restart Mysql server service:

Install PHP 7.1 and Related Modules

PHP 7.1 may not be available in Ubuntu default repositories… in order to install it, you will have to get it from third-party repositories.

# sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

# sudo apt update

Finally, run the commands below to install PHP 7.1 and related modules..

# sudo apt install php7.1 libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1-common php7.1-mbstring php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-mysql php7.1-cli php7.1-mcrypt php7.1-zip php7.1-curl

After install PHP 7.1, run the commands below to open PHP-FPM default file.

# sudo vim /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

The value below are great settings to apply in your environments.

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = Asia/Karachi

Create new Database for WordPress

To logon to MySql database server, run the commands below.

# sudo mysql -u root -p

Then create a database called WordPressDB

# CREATE DATABASE WordPressDB;

Create a database user called dbadmin with new password

# CREATE USER ‘dbadmin’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘new_password_here’;

Then grant the user full access to the database.

# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘dbadmin’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;

Finally, save your changes and exit.

# FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
# EXIT;

Download WordPress Latest Release

After downloading, run the commands below to extract the downloaded file and move it into a new WordPress root directory.

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

# tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

# sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html/wordpress

Then run the commands below to set the correct permissions for WordPress to function.

#sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/
# sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress/

Configure Apache2 HTTP Server

Finally, configure Apache2 site configuration file for WordPress. This file will control how users access WordPress content. Run the commands below to create a new configuration file called wordpress.conf

# sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save it. Replace the highlighted line with your own domain name and directory root location.

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@example.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress/
     ServerName example.com
     ServerAlias www.example.com

<Directory /var/www/html/wordpress/>
        Options +FollowSymlinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
     </Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Enable the WordPress and Rewrite Module

After configuring the VirtualHost above, enable it by running the commands below… the commands also disable PHP7.0 and enable PHP 7.1 for Apache2.

# sudo a2ensite wordpress.conf
# sudo a2enmod rewrite

Restart Apache2

To load all the settings above, restart Apache2 by running the commands below.

# sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

CONFIGURE WORDPRESS

Now that Apache2 is configured, run the commands below to create WordPress wp-config.php file.

# sudo mv /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-config.php

Then run the commands below to open WordPress configuration file.

# vim /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-config.php

Enter the highlighted text below that you created for your database and save.

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** // /** The name of the database for WordPress */ define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wpdb’); /** MySQL database username */ define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wpdbuser’); /** MySQL database password */ define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘user_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’, ”);

After that, open your browser and browse to your domain name to launch WordPress configuration wizard.

You should see WordPress setup wizard to complete. Please follow the wizard carefully.