WordPress tutorial, how to install wordpress on linux web server. Through Cpanal or downloading the zip from wordpress site and doing normal installation. But some times If you have VPS or your own linux server then you want to know about how to do the wordpress installation easily on Linux box.
how to install wordpress on linux web server
Just follow My steps:
If you have shell access to your web server, and are comfortable using console-based tools, you may wish to download WordPress directly to your web server using wget (or lynx or another console-based web browser) if you want to avoid FTPing:
- wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
- Then unzip the package using:
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
The WordPress package will extract into a folder called wordpress in the same directory that you downloaded latest.tar.gz.
Then Use the following Command.
#mv WORDPRESS YOURDOMAIN NAME
Than Open your apache configuration file and put following code in that file
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin support@purabtech.in DocumentRoot /var/www/html/YOURDOMAIN NAME ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com ErrorLog logs/YOURDOMAIN-error_log CustomLog logs/YOURDOMAIN-access_log custom </VirtualHost>
Than restart the apache server.
#/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Open your site in browser and do the installtion. But dont forget to create mysql database put correct information in wp-config.php file about database and username and password.
You are ready to go with your wordpress instillation with linux command prompt. This way you can do the local installation of wordpress on linux box.