{"id":20,"date":"2017-02-15T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-02-22T01:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:13:22","slug":"installing-wordpress-on-php7-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/installing-wordpress-on-php7-nginx.html","title":{"rendered":"Installing WordPress on PHP7, Nginx & Ubuntu 16.04 With SSL Support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Nginx<\/a><\/div>\n

This tutorial assumes you already have LEMP installed on Ubuntu 16.04 with PHP7 & PHP-FPM. If you don’t have anything installed yet, you can find a tutorial on how to do it in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For this tutorial, I’ll assume you are logged in as root. Ideally however, you must use a non-root username and prefix all the commands with sudo.<\/b><\/p>\n

Update your packages<\/h2>\n
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade<\/pre>\n
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Install PHP Packages that WordPress will use<\/h2>\n
apt-get install php-xmlrpc php-xml php-gd php-mbstring php-curl php-mcrypt<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Restart PHP-FPM<\/h4>\n
systemctl restart php7.0-fpm<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Configure Nginx<\/h2>\n
I’ll assume my website is called mysite.com<\/span> and the configuration file will be called mysite.com<\/span> as well (you can call them differently)<\/p>\n
First, create the directly where the SSL certificate & key will be uploaded (Even if you won’t use SSL, proceed with this step)<\/p>\n
mkdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com<\/pre>\n
And create the directory where wordpress will be uploaded<\/p>\n
mkdir \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/html<\/pre>\n
Secondly, create the nginx configuration file:<\/p>\n
vi \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/mysite.com<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
server {<\/pre>\n
# Force Redirect to www, change server_name according to your needs<\/p>\n
server_name mysite.com;<\/p>\n
rewrite ^\/(.*)$ http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/$1 permanent;<\/p>\n
}<\/p>\n
server {<\/p>\n
# Domain name
\nserver_name www.mysite.com;<\/p>\n
# Location of files
\nroot \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/html;<\/p>\n
# Location of access & error Logs, you can call them anything you like
\naccess_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/www.mysite.com.access.log;
\nerror_log \/var\/log\/nginx\/www.mysite.com.error.log;<\/p>\n
# Listen to Port 80 (http)
\nlisten 80;<\/p>\n
#Listen on SSL with http2 support
\nlisten 443 ssl http2 default_server;
\nssl_certificate \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/ssl.cert;
\nssl_certificate_key \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/ssl.key;<\/p>\n
# Default file to serve. If the first file isn’t found,
\nindex index.php index.html index.htm;<\/p>\n
# Don’t log favicons
\nlocation = \/favicon.ico {
\nlog_not_found off;
\naccess_log off;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Configuring robots.txt and disable its logging
\nlocation = \/robots.txt {
\nallow all;
\nlog_not_found off;
\naccess_log off;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Configure 404 Pages
\nerror_page 404 \/404.html;<\/p>\n
# Configuring Error 50x Pages
\nerror_page 500 502 503 504 \/50x.html;
\nlocation = \/50x.html {
\nroot \/usr\/share\/nginx\/www;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Denying all attempts to access hidden files (example .htaccess)
\nlocation ~ \/. {
\ndeny all;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Expiry date headers for static files and turn off logging.
\nlocation ~* ^.+.(js|css|swf|xml|txt|ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
\naccess_log off; log_not_found off; expires 30d;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Rewrite rules, sends everything through index.php
\nlocation \/ {
\ntry_files $uri $uri\/ \/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Deny access to PHP Files in the uploads directory
\nlocation ~* \/(?:uploads|files)\/.*.php$ {
\ndeny all;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Enable PHP Support
\nlocation ~ .php$ {
\ninclude snippets\/fastcgi-php.conf;
\nfastcgi_pass unix:\/run\/php\/php7.0-fpm.sock;
\n}<\/p>\n
# Enable Rewrite Rules for Yoast SEO SiteMap
\nrewrite ^\/sitemap_index.xml$ \/index.php?sitemap=1 last;
\nrewrite ^\/([^\/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ \/index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;<\/p>\n
# Add trailing slash to *\/wp-admin requests.
\nrewrite \/wp-admin$ $scheme:\/\/$host$uri\/ permanent;
\n}<\/p>\n
If you enable listening on port 443, make sure to have the ssl files in their appropriate location (As defined in the configuration file)<\/p>\n
\/var\/www\/mysite.com\/ssl.cert\r\n\/var\/www\/mysite.com\/ssl.key<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Create a link (shortcut) in sites-enabled<\/h4>\n
ln -s \/etc\/nginx\/sites-available\/mysite.com \/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
(Optional) Disable the default server_name by deleting its link<\/h4>\n
unlink \/etc\/nginx\/sites-enabled\/default<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Test nginx settings & syntax<\/h4>\n
nginx -t<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Reload nginx configuration<\/h4>\n
systemctl reload nginx<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Create new Database User and Table<\/h2>\n
Login into database:<\/h4>\n
mysql -u root -p<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Create database table:<\/h4>\n
I’ll call it wpdb<\/b> in this example,<\/p>\n
CREATE DATABASE wpdb DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;<\/pre>\n
Create database user and grant the user all the privileges, I’ll call the user wpuser:<\/h4>\n
GRANT ALL ON wpdb.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Flush the Database for the changes to take effects immediately:<\/h4>\n
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Exit the Database<\/h4>\n
Exit<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Installing WordPress<\/h2>\n
Go to the previously created directory<\/h4>\n
cd \/var\/www\/mysite.com\/html<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Download latest WordPress version<\/h4>\n
https:\/\/wordpress.org\/latest.tar.gz<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Uncompress it<\/h4>\n
gunzip latest.tar.gz<\/pre>\n
tar -xvf latest.tar<\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n
Remove latest.tar<\/h4>\n
rm latest.tar<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
The files will be located in a directory called wordpress, move them outside it<\/h4>\n
mv wordpress\/* .<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Delete the empty WordPress directory<\/h4>\n
rm -rf wordpress<\/pre>\n
 <\/p>\n
Change owner of the files from nobody to www-data<\/h4>\n
chown -R www-data:www-data *<\/pre>\n
Install WordPress from the domain name you entered in server_name in the configuration file, your domain must be pointed.
\nExample: http:\/\/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<\/span>
\nWhere xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<\/span> is your server’s IP address or domain name<\/p>\n
Follow the instructions and use the database credentials you created earlier on.<\/p>\n
Any questions or suggestions, post them below!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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