WordPress Install on Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7

Download the latest WordPress package and extract it:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf latest.tar.gz

This will create a WordPress package in wordpress.

Let's move the WordPress files from the extracted folder to the Apache root directory for our domain (bojima.com), /var/www/html/bojima:

$ sudo rsync -av wordpress/* /var/www/html/bojima

Let's set the correct permission/ownership on the directory.

Ubuntu 16:

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/bojima
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/bojima

CentOS 7:

$ sudo chown -R apache:www-data /var/www/html/bojima
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/bojima

We want to set the name, user, and password for database:

$ mysql -u root -p 

mysql> create database wp_blog;

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp_blog.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

mysql> flush privileges;

mysql> exit;

Go the /var/www/html/bojima directory and rename existing wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php:

$ sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

We may need to update it with our database information under the MySQL settings section:

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Here is the configuration file (/etc/apache2/sites-available/bojima.example.com.conf) on a local machine:

<VirtualHost *:80>

     ServerName www.bojima.example.com
     ServerAlias bojima.example.com

     ErrorLog /var/www/bojima.example.com/logs/error.log
     CustomLog /var/www/bojima.example.com/logs/access.log combined

     LogLevel warn

     DirectoryIndex index.php
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/bojima
     ServerSignature Off

     <Directory /var/www/html/bojima>
       AllowOverride All
     </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Another configuration file (/etc/httpd/sites-available/bojima.com.conf) on a production server:

<VirtualHost *:80>

     ServerName www.bojima.com
     ServerAlias bojima.com

     ErrorLog /var/www/bojima.com/logs/error.log
     CustomLog /var/www/bojima.com/logs/access.log combined

     LogLevel warn

     DirectoryIndex index.php
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html/bojima
     ServerSignature Off

     <Directory /var/www/html/bojima>
       AllowOverride All
     </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Restart the web server and mysql service.

Ubuntu 14.04:

$ sudo a2ensite bojima.example.com.conf

$ sudo systemctl restart apache2.service 
$ sudo systemctl restart mysql.service 

CentOS 7:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/bojima.com.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/bojima.com.conf

$ sudo systemctl restart mariadb
$ $ sudo systemctl restart httpd 

Open a web browser, then enter : http://bojima.example.com (local)to get the welcome page as shown below:

On a production server (CentOS 7), type in http://bojima.com: