How to install WordPress on a UFO.Hosting server

WordPress is the most popular CMS today. It is clear, easy to use, quickly installed and suitable for almost any project: from a personal blog to the official website of a company or online store. 

Even in manual mode, its installation takes no more than 10 minutes. We’ll tell you step by step how to do this. 

What will you need before installation?

Before you start installing WordPress, make sure you have everything you need: 

1. Virtual server with Linux installed. For example, Ubuntu, Debian or any other Linux distribution. 
2. Access via SSH to the server. After ordering a server, you will receive an IP address, login and password. With their help, you can connect to the server and execute commands. Learn more about gaining SSH access to the server read our instructions. 
3.   Access to the server database. WordPress stores content and settings in a database. You can use an existing one or create a new one.

Step 1. Preparing the server

First, you’ll need to install a LAMP stack, a popular set of software used to run web servers. It includes: 

• operating system Linux — it will already be on the server, so you won’t need to install it separately; 
• web server Apache; 
• MySQL database or MariaDB;
• programming language PHP.

Optionally, Apache can be replaced with the faster and lighter Nginx web server. It is especially relevant for high-load sites for which performance is important. 

Web server installation

1. First, update the packages on the system: 

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

2. Next install Apache:

sudo apt install apache2

3. Enable and start the web server:

 sudo systemctl enable apache2

4. Check the web server using the command:

systemctl status apache2

Installing PHP

Now install PHP and all the required modules using the command:

sudo apt install -y php php-{common,mysql,xml,xmlrpc,curl,gd,imagick,cli,dev,imap,mbstring,opcache,soap,zip,intl}

If in doubt, you can check the PHP version to be sure: 

php -v

Database installation

For example, we’ll install MariaDB, but you can also use MySQL:

sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

sudo systemctl enable --now mariadb

systemctl status mariadb

Step 2. Create a database for the site

To do this you will need to complete several steps: 

1. Connect to MySQL:

sudo mysql -u root -p

2. Create a database for WordPress:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;

3. Create a user for the database:

CREATE USER 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_secure_password';

4. Grant the user rights to the database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress_db.* TO 'wp_user'@'localhost';

5.Apply changes:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

6. Quit MySQL:

EXIT;

Step 3: Download and Setup WordPress 

1. Follow the link to the official website wordpress.org and download the latest version of WordPress. We do not recommend downloading CMS from unverified resources — this way you risk introducing viruses to the server. 
2. Upload the WordPress distribution to the server: 

cd /tmp

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

tar -xvf latest.tar.gz

sudo cp -R wordpress /var/www/html/

3. Set owner and rights:

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

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

Step 4. Setting up a connection to the database

1. Go to the site folder:

cd /var/www/html/wordpress

2. Copy the configuration file:

cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

sudo chown www-data:www-data wp-config.php

3. Open the file wp-config.php

sudo nano wp-config.php

4. Change the following lines:

define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress_db' );
/** MySQL database username */

 define( 'DB_USER', 'wp_user' );
/** MySQL database password */

 define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'your_secure_password' );
/** MySQL hostname */

 define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

change wordpress_db to the name of the database
wp_user is changed to the username
change your_secure_password to the specified password

Step 5: Configuring Apache

To do this we do the following:

1. Go to the catalog /etc/apache2/sites-available and copy the file 000-default.conf.

cp 000-default.conf wordpress.conf

2. Editing the file wordpress.conf and add the following lines:

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
ServerName Server_IP

Server_IP needs to be replaced with IP VPS

3. Activate the site and restart Apache:

a2ensite wordpress.conf
a2dissite 000-default.conf
service apache2 reload

Step 6: Complete installation 

1. Open the server IP address in the browser:

http://your-server-ip-address

2. Then WordPress itself will prompt you to complete the installation. Enter the site name, administrator login and password, and email address. After this, everything will be ready and you will be taken to the WordPress admin area. 

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