WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog.
- Ubuntu server
- Nginx
- Nginx minimal website
- php5-fpm
- php5-mysql
- Nginx php5-fpm website
- MySQL
- Increased Max Upload for php5-fpm website
Create the website directory
sudo mkdir /var/www/[wordpress]/
Open the WordPress site directory
cd /var/www/[wordpress]/
Download latest WordPress package and untar it
sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
Copy the untared files to the current folder and delete the other files
sudo cp -r ./wordpress/* ./
sudo rm -r wordpress
sudo rm latest.tar.gz
Let's create the MySQL WordPress database and user.
mysql -u root -p
Enter the MySQL root user password.
Create the WordPress database.
CREATE DATABASE [wordpress];
Create the WordPress database user.
CREATE USER [wordpress]@localhost;
Set the password for the WordPress database user.
SET PASSWORD FOR [wordpress]@localhost = PASSWORD("[password]");
Grant WordPress user full access on WordPress database.
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [wordpress].* TO [wordpress]@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '[password]';
Refresh MySQL and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Add the Nginx configuration to the WordPress website.
server{
...
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
...
}
Update permissions for the www-data group.
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/[wordpress] -R
Test config and reload Nginx service.
sudo nginx -t && sudo service nginx reload
Open the browser again on //[host] and install the WordPress blog.
WordPress Nginx Codex How To Install Wordpress with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 by Digital Ocean