Installing Wordpress with Nginx in Ubuntu

Partha Biswas — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:04:38 +0000

To install WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu, follow these steps:
1. Update your system

sudo apt update

2. Install required module

sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql mysql-server nginx unzip php-xml

3. Setup mySql (Optional)
You can skip this if already done

4. Configuring Nginx to work with PHP

Goto nginx directory

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available

Delete default (Optional)

sudo rm default

Create Server Blocks for this Domain

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain1.com

Identify php sock version by following command

ls /var/run/php

Add the following content (adjust paths and domain names as needed and php sock version from above):

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name domain1.com www.domain1.com;

    root /var/www/html/domain1.com;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    ssl_certificate  /etc/ssl/domain1.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /etc/ssl/domain1.com.key;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;  # Adjust PHP version if necessary
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Create symbolic links in the site-enabled directory

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain1.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Test Nginx Configuration. Make sure the Nginx configuration is correct:

sudo nginx -t

Restart Nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

5. Configuring Wordpress
Downloading Wordpress to the Ubuntu server

cd /var/www/html/domain1.com
sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Extract the file to domain1.com

sudo unzip latest.zip
sudo mv wordpress/* .

Remove unwanted files and folders

sudo rm latest.zip
sudo rm -R wordpress

Changing the owner of the Wordpress files

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data *

6. Databse details configure
Open domain1.com and fill all the details.
From next page copy it's contains and create new file with this in /var/www/html/domain1.com folder

sudo nano wp-config.php

Now complete remaining setup vi domain1.com url

Oracle cloud EC2- Website not opening issue

Partha Biswas — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:24:58 +0000

Check Following things

Do curl request to understand webpage is accessible from local or not

curl localhost:80

Configure ingress route for port 80. Enable destination port 80 and source port all CIDRS 0.0.0.0/0
Install Apache/nginx
Disable ufw firewall - this may cause issues with the Oracle firewall
use below command to enable via iptables

sudo iptables -I INPUT 6 -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
sudo netfilter-persistent save

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4
sudo iptables -L -n

test your web page over internet

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Installing Wordpress with Nginx in Ubuntu

Oracle cloud EC2- Website not opening issue