How to Setup WordPress Installation on Linux

1. Create a directory for the new website (e.g., website1.com):

   mkdir website1
   

2. Check the owner of the directory, if it’s set to root, you might want to change it to your username or at least www-data. To change the owner from root to myusername, type the following:

   sudo chown -hR myusername:myusername /var/www/html/website1
   

3. Go to website1 directory.

   cd /var/www/html/website1
   

4. Download wordpress.

   wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
   

   or you can target a specific version. For example in this case, the latest version is 6.9.1, then you can download by specific version by typing:

   wget https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.9.1.tar.gz
   

5. Extract the file:

   tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz
   

   This will extract the files to a sub-directory wordpress with the full path /var/www/html/website1/wordpress.

You can then set up wordpress the same way as any other system.

Optional

If you do not want to have wordpress sub-directory, you can copy all files to the parent directory.

sudo cp -r /var/www/html/website1/wordpress/* /var/www/html/website1

We’re copying the content of wordpress directory and -r is to include all sub-directories (recursive).

Use copy instead of move so if you make mistake, you can redo.

After verifying all copied files, then you can delete the files from original directory:

sudo rm -r /var/www/html/website1/wordpress/*

Assumptions:

• Web server is installed and the public html directory is in /var/www.

• Basic knowledge of WordPress installation and configuration, which is not covered in this post.