94.23 WordPress Basic Installation

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Setting up a WordPress instance on Ubuntu is illustrated below using a new Azure virtual machine running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (myhub.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com). We begin by connecting to the server using ssh:

ssh myhub.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com

Next ensure the software on the server is up-to-date:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get --yes dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --yes install python3-pip
pip3 install wajig

You will need to reboot the server because of operating system updates:

sudo reboot

When you reconnect using ssh the PATH will also have been updated so that the wajig command will be available.

Next install wordpress and required software:

wajig install --yes wordpress php libapache2-mod-php mariadb-server php-mysql

The WordPress configuration file for Apache is then created:

sudo editor /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

Its contents should be the following, though you could use Alias /blog ... to retain current root site and utilise WordPress as /blog.

Alias / /usr/share/wordpress
<Directory /usr/share/wordpress>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride Limit Options FileInfo
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

We can then enable the WordPress site and modules for Apache:

sudo a2ensite wordpress
sudo a2enmod rewrite
wajig reload apache2


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