First install and enable Remi repository using following command.
# yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
We are going to use php7.3, so we need to disable php5.4 using yum-config-manager command provided by yum-utils tool.
# yum install yum-utils
# yum-config-manager --disable remi-php54
# yum-config-manager --enable remi-php73
Installing LAMP Stack on CentOS 7
Now install LAMP Stack with following commands:
# yum install httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-common php-mysql php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-mcrypt nano
# systemctl start mariadb
# mysql_secure_installation
#systemctl enable mariadb
# systemctl start httpd
# systemctl enable httpd
Now Create Wordpress Mysql/MariaDB Database using following commands:
# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
## Create database ##
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
## Creating new user ##
CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "secure_password";
## Grant privileges to database ##
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@localhost;
## FLUSH privileges ##
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
## Exit ##
exit;
Downloading and Installing Wordpress:
# cd /tmp && wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html
# chown -R apache /var/www/html/wordpress
Edit Apache configuration file to create virtual host for wordpress:
# nano -w /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
And add the following code at the bottom of the file and replace the marked text with the information related to your installation:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
ServerName hosteons.com
ServerAlias www.hosteons.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/hosteons-error-log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/hosteons-acces-log common
</VirtualHost>
Replace hosteons with your domain name.
Now save changes by cress CTRL-W
Restart apache with following commands:
# systemctl restart httpd
Now configure and install wordpress from web by visiting your website IP or domain (if DNS is already setup)
visit in your browser: http://VPS-IP
