WordPress Installation

wordpress_install.info

### Update the Server 
apt-get update 
apt-get upgrade

##Install webserver, PHP and MariaDB
apt-get install nginx php php-cli php-common php-curl php-dev php-fpm php-gd php-intl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-opcache php-readline php-soap php-xml php-zip mariadb-server

##Secure Maria DB and create database
mysql_secure_installation 
mysql -i
create database <databasename>;
grant all on <databasename>.* to '<databaseuser>'@'localhost' identified by '<password>';
flush privileges;

##Configure Nginx
server {

	listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;

	server_tokens off;
	root /var/www/<sitepath>;

	index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

	server_name <sitename>;

	add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
	
	location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
	}

	location ~ /.well-known {
		allow all;
	}

	location ~ \.php$ {
		include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
		fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
	}

	location ~ /\.ht {
		deny all;
	}

}

## verify nginx configuration 
nginx -t

## download and extract wordpress leatest version 
cd  /var/www
mkdir <sitename>
cd <sitename>
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvf latest.tar.gz
cd wordpress
cp -r * /var/www/<sitename>
cd ..
rm -rf wordpress/

## change permissions 
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/

## install let's encrypt SSL 
add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
apt-get update 
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
certbot --nginx -d <sitename> -d <sitename>

## Install wordPress
https://<sitename>

## activate Swap File 
fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
ls -lh /swapfile
chmod 600 /swapfile
ls -lh /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

## Make SWAP permanent
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
nano /etc/sysctl.conf
vm.swappiness=10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50