Ubuntu Nginx wordpress Configration

create folder in your directory with domain name

mkdir example.com
cd example.com 

Installing Additional PHP Extensions

sudo apt update
sudo apt install php-curl php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-zip
sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm

Download wordpress and change into writable directory

curl -LO https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
cd wordpress
mv * ../
cd ..
rm -rf wordpress
cd ..
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data example.com

Configure Nginx

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
nano example.com

paste below sample configuration

server {
        server_name example.com;
        index index.html index.php;
        root /var/www/example.com;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
        }

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

then press CTRL + X and press Y and enter to save configuration

Now time to add this file in nginx sites-enabled dir. It ln -s creates a link to sites-available directory in sites-enabled directory

cd ../sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available example.com

Now finally run below command to test nginx configuration

nginx -t

if not get any error then restart nginx

systemctl restart nginx

Time to setup mysql

mysql
create database example;