How to deploy new wordpress website on centos 7 step by step from scratch | How to install new wordPress website on Centos

 How to deploy new wordpress site on centos 7 

Task will be completed in this lab 

1 =>  Install http/apache server 

2 => Install mysql server 

3 => Install php 

4 => Install wordpress

5 => Deploy app1.makelinuxinteresting.com  on wordpress 

Let's Start 

Step 1 — Installing http/Apache Server 

Open your terminal and login with root user or use sudo 

Note: I'm using root user 

* After installation of Centos 7 on server first update the yum repodata
   by running below command.

# yum update 

* Now Install http/apache server package from below command 

# yum install httpd

* Now enable httpd service on startup and start httpd service  by below command 

# systemctl enable httpd  

# systemctl start httpd 

# systemctl status httpd 

Note: I have turned off firewall and selinux is permissive if you have firewall on mode
             you have to run below command to enable allow http in iptable.

# firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=http

# firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=https

# firewall-cmd --reload

# iptables -L 

* Now open your server ip in browser to check default page 

    http://192.168.1.2/

Note: Change Server IP according to your server IP .

* Now create a virtual host for your  website  app1.makelinuxinteresting.com

#mkdir /var/www/html/app1

 #vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/app1.makelinuxinteresting.conf

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@makelinuxinteresting.com
    ServerName app1.makelinuxinteresting.com
    ServerAlias www.app1.makelinuxinteresting.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/app1
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/app1.makelinuxinteresting.com-error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/app1.makelinuxinteresting.com-access.log combined

<Directory /var/www/html/app1>
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.app1.makelinuxinteresting.com[OR]    
        RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =app1.makelinuxinteresting.com
        RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]
       AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Press esc and :wq  enter to save file 

* Create a DNS A record in your hosting provider or if you want to resolve it locally edit in your 

host file 

for windows : c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

For linux or mac :  vim /etc/hosts 

 

  Step 1 Result : Now you can see you are able to open default page of https/apache server .

* Now check http configuration 

# httpd -t

* if no error found restart httpd service 

#systemctl restart httpd 

* run below command to check website configuration  

#httpd -S 

  : Now open app1.makelinuxinteresting.com to verify .

 Note : you get default testing page only because till now we don't put any data in root folder 

Step 2 — Installing  mysql 5.7 server 

 A – Now you have to enable MySQL Repository by below command 

 # yum localinstall https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-9.noarch.rpm

B - Now You have to Install MySQL 5.7 Server  by running below command 

# yum install mysql-community-server 

C -  Now enable mysql service on startup and start mysql service by below commands.

# systemctl enable mysqld 

# systemctl start mysqld 

# systemctl status mysqld 

Note : After installing MySQL 5.7 Server default root password will be set to see default pass you have to run below command .

# grep 'A temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log |tail -1

 D – Now you can Login to MySQL by using default pass

     #mysql -uroot -p 

E -  Now Change mysql root password for security purpose according to yourself .

Note : use strong password only 

# mysqladmin -uroot -p password

F - Now create a user wp_user for wordpress installation 

# mysql -uroot -p 

mysql> use mysql;

mysql> grant select,insert,delete,create,update on *.* to wp_user@‘localhost’ identified by "Xmr@3HCP9rs3My34";

 

* Now create a database for your website remember you
can give any name according to you. I'm using wordpress

mysql> create database wordpress;

Step 3 — Install php packages 

A  :  Install yum-utils and enable EPEL repository 

 # yum install epel-release yum-utils -y

B : Download and Install remirepo using yum command

 # yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

C : Now enable configuration for  PHP 7.3 repository, use below command 

# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73

D : Install PHP 7.3 along with dependencies.

# yum install php php-common php-opcache php-mcrypt php-cli php-gd php-curl php-mysql php-fpm

Step 4 —  Installing Wordpress 

A -  Download wordpress 

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

# ls 

B - Now extract latest.tar.gz file by below command 

# tar -zxf latest.tar.gz 

#ls 

C - Now copy or sync wordpress folder in Root Directory.

# rsync -a wordpress/ /var/www/html/app1/

D - Now change permission by below command 

#chmod 777 -R /var/www/html/app1/

#chown apache:apache -R /var/www/html/app1/

Step 5 — Deploy app1.makelinuxinteresting.com  on wordpress  

A : Now open http://app1.makelinuxinteresting.com/wp-admin/setup-config.php
       in your browser 

B : Click on Let's go!

* Here fill all the details which you was created in Step 2 like mysql database , 

    username, and password and hostname. and click submit 

 

Note : If you face any issue in above step do it manually

#cp /var/www/html/app1/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/app1/wp-config.php

#vim /var/www/html/app1/wp-config.php 

change DB_NAME , DB_USER, DBPASSWORD and DB_HOST according to you 

* Now click on Continue 

* Now fill details according to yourself and click on Install WordPress to install it.

* Now WordPress has been installed successfully here you can login .

* Now Wordpress successfully deployed you can open and verify open http://app1.makelinuxinteresting.com pp1.makelinuxinteresting.com/

Thanks