wordpress install

gistfile1.txt

Reaplce YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT with you actual domain or subdomain. Point domain to server IP by editing DNS.

To create a new wordpress site, create a dirctory

/var/www/YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT/public_html

Upload wordpress files inside.

Create nginx config

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT

Add following content inside the file.


server {
    listen 80;
    server_name YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT www.YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT;
    
    root /var/www/YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT/public_html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

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

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

   location ~ /\.ht {
      deny all;
   }

   location = /favicon.ico {
      log_not_found off;
      access_log off;
   }

   location = /robots.txt {
      allow all;
      log_not_found off;
      access_log off;
   }

   location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
      expires max;
      log_not_found off;
   }


    error_log /var/log/nginx/YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT-error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT-access.log;

}

Restart nginx

systemctl restart nginx

To enable SSL, run

certbot --authenticator webroot --webroot-path /var/www/YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT/public_html --installer nginx --agree-tos  --no-eff-email --email [email protected] -d YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT -d www.YOUR-DOMAIN.EXT

Now visit you website,  you will get wordpress install page. It will ask for a database name, username and password.