Hosting a WordPress site in Debain in simple steps.

simple step-by-step guide to host a WordPress site on Debian:

Setup LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP) with phpMyAdmin on Debian

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Steps to Host WordPress blog inside /var/www/html/blog in Debain Linux

1. Download WordPress

cd /var/www/html/blog
sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
sudo mv wordpress/* .
sudo rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz

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2. Create Database for WordPress

sudo mariadb -u root -p

Inside MariaDB:

CREATE DATABASE wp_blog;
CREATE USER 'janak'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'janak0ff';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp_blog.* TO 'janak'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

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3. Configure WordPress

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

Update:

define( 'DB_NAME', 'wp_blog' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'janak' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'janak0ff' );
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

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4. Fix Permissions

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

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5. Install WordPress

Now open your browser:

http://192.168.63.132/blog

Follow the setup wizard (site title, admin username, password).

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Thank You