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How to Quickly Install WordPress On Ubuntu/Linux Mint
WordPress is a free and open source website and blogging tool and it is the most popular CMS (content management system) on the internet. It allows you to easily set up flexible blogs and websites on top of a MySQL backend with PHP processing. This article describes “How to install WordPress on Linux with bash script”. Bash script automatically downloads and installs the latest version of WordPress in any place of your choice.
Installing LAMP
To install and run WordPress on your system, pre-installation on your web server is required.
Use the following command to install LAMP web server.
$ sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
The sample output should be like this –
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'mysql-server-core-5.5' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'mysql-server-5.5' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libaio1' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'mysql-client-core-5.5' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'apache2-mpm-prefork' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libaprutil1' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libapache2-mod-php5' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'php5-mysql' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'php5-common' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'php5-readline' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'ssl-cert' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'mysql-client-5.5' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libhtml-template-perl' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libterm-readkey-perl' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libaprutil1-ldap' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'mysql-common' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'php5-cli' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libmysqlclient18' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'apache2-data' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'php5-json' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'libapr1' for task 'lamp-server' Note, selecting 'apache2' for task 'lamp-server' ................................................
To restart Apache2, use the following command –
$ sudo service apache2 restart
To restart mySQL, use the following command –
$ sudo service mysql restart
Now open localhost directory,use the following command to open localhost directory-
$ cd /var/www/html
Now use wget command to aceess the wp-install.sh, use the following command –
$ sudo wget https://goo.gl/MndEJc --no-check-certificate -O wp-install.sh
The sample output should be like this –
--2016-03-16 12:13:06-- https://goo.gl/MndEJc Resolving goo.gl (goo.gl)... 216.58.196.110, 2404:6800:4007:806::200e Connecting to goo.gl (goo.gl)|216.58.196.110|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WebPraktikos/wp-install/master/wp-install.sh [following] --2016-03-16 12:13:06-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WebPraktikos/wp-install/master/wp-install.sh Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 103.245.222.133 Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|103.245.222.133|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 4410 (4.3K) [text/plain] Saving to: ‘wp-install.sh’ 100%[======================================>] 4,410 --.-K/s in 0s 2016-03-16 12:13:07 (1003 MB/s) - ‘wp-install.sh’ saved [4410/4410]
To install wp-install.sh, use the following command –
$ sudo bash wp-install.sh
The sample output should be like this –
creating: w3-total-cache/lib/EDD/ inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/EDD/integration.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/EDD/EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater.php creating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/ creating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/lib/ creating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/lib/requestcore/ inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/lib/requestcore/requestcore.class.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/lib/requestcore/cacert.pem inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/lib/requestcore/README.md inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/lib/requestcore/LICENSE creating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/utilities/ inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/utilities/utilities.class.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/utilities/request.class.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/utilities/response.class.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/utilities/simplexml.class.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/README.md inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/sdk.class.php creating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/services/ creating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/services/MessageValidator/ inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/services/MessageValidator/MessageValidator.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/services/MessageValidator/sns-exceptions.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/services/MessageValidator/Message.php inflating: w3-total-cache/lib/SNS/services/sns.class.php creating: w3-total-cache/lib/Microsoft/ ..........................................................
While installing WordPress, it will ask Database name and password. Make sure to give proper information to set up WordPress. Type the following URL in your favorite web browser-
http://localhost/wp-admin/install.php
The sample output should be like this –
Fill the details as your needed and press install WordPress button.After done all successful steps, you will get screen as shown below –
Congratulations! Now, you know “How to Quickly Install WordPress On Ubuntu/Linux Mint”. We’ll learn more about these types of commands in our next Linux post. Keep reading!
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