Installing wordpress in Ubuntu step by step

Installing wordpress in Ubuntu step by step:

 

Prerequiste:

Lampp installed (If you are windows user then you may be knowing xampp, lampp is the alternate to xampp in ubuntu/linux).

How to install wordpress locally in windows ?

 

Step 1: Download the wordpress. Extract it.

Step 2: Open the lampp and start the mysql and apache web server.

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sudo /opt/lampp/manager-linux-x64.run

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Step 3: Open the lampp folder using this command,

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nautilus /opt

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Paste the extracted wordpress to htdocs folder.

 

After I pasted wp it looks like this,

 

Step 4: Create the database name, username password in phpmyadmin

http://localhost/phpmyadmin

I have created the database as: wp

 

username and password I did not create anything, so we can give the default one:

 

username: root

 

password: no password (empty by default).

 

This is the default one in the lampp localhost installed.

 

Step 5: Now open the http://localhost/wp/ in browser, it will be automatically redirected to ,

http://localhost/wp/wp-admin/setup-config.php

 

 

Create wp-config.php file under wp root folder and paste the below snippet:

 

Sometime it will create the wordpress database if you run through it. If you get the above message then copy paste this wp-config.php file.

 

You are almost done.

 

Step 6: Enter site title, username and passwords

Click install wordpress.

 

Installation  success, now you can see the admin panel now,

 

http://localhost/wp

 

Feel free to write your commands in the below command sections.