ssh root@domain.com

cd /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/

pwd

Download WordPress

Download WordPress

Now you’ll obtain the WordPress archived package directly from the WordPress.org server and downloading it directly to this directory. Execute a WGET command to download the file.

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

The file should now start downloading to your server. With the file finished downloading, execute the LS command to ensure that the file is there and ready to be unzipped.

ls

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Unzip

Extract the Archive

Now we need to extract the archive with the UNZIP command

unzip latest.zip

This will extract all of the files in the archive into the current working directory. WordPress comes packaged into a “wordpress” folder, so we’ll need to copy all the files from the “wordpress” folder to the current directory. Let’s execute the CP command to copy the files.

cp -rf ./wordpress/* ./

The command above will recursively copy all of the files and folders from the “wordpress” directory into the current working directory. The “r” option causes recursive copying and the “f” option forces all existent files to be overwritten.

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Create a database

Create a MySQL database

You can create your MySQL database via command line. You will need to have your MySQL administrator username and password in most cases though. First, log in to MySQL via command line.

mysql -uusername -ppassword

Change “username” and “password” in the command above to the appropriate administrator’s username and password for your MySQL server. Press return on your keyboard which will log you in if the login details were correctly entered. Now create the new database.

create database dbname

Change “dbname” to your preferred name for the new database. Then we need to execute two more commands related to privileges. The first command will give a user access to the database in order to connect and the second command will give the user all privileges to the database in order to create tables, insert records, drop tables, etc. Grant usage first.

grant usage on *.* to username@localhost identified by 'password'

Remember to change the “username” and “password” values for the specified user in the command above. Next, grant all privileges to the user for the specified database.

grant all privileges on dbname.* to username@localhost

The query above grants all privileges to the user for the database. Change the “dbname” value to the correct name of the database you created earlier on.

You can test the connection if you want to. Execute the command below but first change the “username”, “password” and “dbname” values to the correct values based on your previous queries above.

mysql -uusername -ppassword dbname

If the connection is successful, you are set to go to the next step in this article.

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wp-config

Edit the WordPress configuration file

We’ll use the VIM editor to change the contents of the WordPress configuration file named “wp-config.php”. First rename the “wp-config-sample.php” file to “wp-config.php”.

mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Now edit the file

vi ./wp-config.php

Press “i” on your keyboard to go into INSERT mode. Use the keyboard arrows to navigate, the backspace to delete text and then change the DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD constants. On some servers, you might need to change the DB_HOST value as well. With these constants changed to the correct values based on the database you set up earlier on and the user you assigned to the database, press “Esc” on your keyboard to exit INSERT mode. Now press “Shift” + “W” + “Q” and then type “wq” hit return. This will write the contents of the file and quit the VIM editor.

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Install

Install WordPress

WordPress is now ready to be installed. Simply go to the URL of the directory where you extracted/copied the files in your browser and follow the 3 easy steps of the WordPress installation which will prompt you for the blog title, administrator’s email, etc…

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