Run wordpress locally on Ubuntu

install_LAMP.md

install LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php)

Installing Apache 2

1. Update package manager

sudo apt update

2. Install Apache

sudo apt install apache2

3. Go to http://localhost/
4. You should be able to see this page

Installing MySQL

1. Install mysql

sudo apt install mysql-server

2. Start MySQL interactive installation & follow the different steps to install it

sudo mysql_secure_installation

3. Create an admin user on MySQL & grant all privileges on each database

sudo mysql

CREATE USER 'EXAMPLE_USER'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'CUSTOM_PASSWORD';

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'EXAMPLE_USER'@'%';

4. To connect to MySQL with this new user

mysql -u EXAMPLE_USER -p

Installing PHP

1. Install PHP

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

2. Restart apache2

sudo systemctl restart apache2

Source

1. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu

php_my_admin.md

Install PHP MY ADMIN

WARNING :phpmyadmin cannot be installed without LAMP

1. Update package manager

sudo apt update

2. Installing phpmyadmin & it's dependencies

   sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-zip php-gd php-json php-curl

   • WARNING: when configuration prompts appears hit SPACE to select Apache2
   • Select YES when prompted to use dbconfig-common
   • If an error occur while installing the database, follow the step in this section

3. Make Apache & Php work with PHPMyAdmin

sudo phpenmod mbstring

4. Restart apache service

sudo systemctl restart apache2

5. Go To http://localhost/phpmyAdmin
6. You should be able to see this page
   

Source 1.https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu

run_wordpress_local.md

Run your Wordpress site locally on Ubuntu

1. Download a Wordpress folder zip file from the official website

wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

2. Unzip this zip file to a location of your choice

tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz -C /path/to/destination

3. remove the zip file

rm latest.tar.gz

4. Go to your extracted folder location

cd /path/to/extracted/file/location

5. If you wish, you can rename the extracted folder

mv EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME_OLD_NAME EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME_NEW_NAME

6. Move the extracted folder to the Apache var/www/ folder

sudo mv EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME /var/www/

7. Assign the user you're currently logged on to ownership of the directory

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME

8. Give write permissions to the folder owner

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME

9. Create a new configuration file

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME.conf

10. Add the following configuration block to the configuration file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName YOUR_DOMAIN
    ServerAlias www.YOUR_DOMAIN
    DocumentRoot /var/www/YOUR_DOMAIN
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

11. Enable the configuration file

sudo a2ensite EXTRACTED_FOLDER_NAME.conf

12. test the configuration

sudo apache2ctl configtest

13. Expected outuput

14. Restart Apache to implement your changes

sudo systemctl restart apache2

15. Go To http://localhost/
16. You should be able to see this page

SOURCE

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-the-apache-web-server-on-ubuntu-22-04
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOESHd1G-HI
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/apache-configuration-error-ah00558-could-not-reliably-determine-the-server-s-fully-qualified-domain-name