Before installing WordPress, the server needs to have LAMP or LEMP installed.
Steps to install WordPress on CentOS
Download WordPress
Go to the folder containing the website content
cd /usr/share/nginx/html/
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Decompression
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
Create WordPress MySQL Database và User
See instructions for operating the database using the command line . For example, create a database_name database , user database_username with password database_password to use.
Install WordPress
Tạo file wp-config.php
cp ./wordpress/wp-config-sample.php ./wordpress/wp-config.php
Edit the file
sudo nano ./wordpress/wp-config.php
Fill in the database, user, and password information
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'database_username');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'database_password');
Save and exit.
Move all files in wordpress folder out
mv -f ./wordpress/* ./
Change the ownership folder containing WordPress
sudo chown nginx:nginx * -R
Now you can proceed to install WordPress by going to http://site.com/wp-admin/install.php and then.
