This article will run through the steps involved in setting up a WordPress site. WordPress, if you’ve been living on one of the moons of Jupiter for the past five years, is an excellent framework that has the power to run everything from a personal blog to a small business site. Normally, I prefer to build from scratch but WordPress is an excellent lightweight option for deploying a blog in ten minutes or so.
This guide assumes you have a working Nginx server with PHP and a working Database.
Download latest WordPress
<a href="https://wordpress.org/download" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/download</a>
SFTP to your server as www-data (guide here.) Create a directory for your new site. This site will be stored in
/var/www/html/jonathanneilly
Copy the contents of the WordPress download directory to the server directory you just created
Log in through SSH and elevate to su (passwords will not show as you type)
ssh user@serveraddress
su
Recursively give owner read, write and execute permissions and group + other read and execute permissions
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/jonathanneilly
Check permissions took effect
ls -l /var/www/html/jonathanneilly
Create and edit a config file for Nginx
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/jonathanneilly
Change the file to the following code
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/html/jonathanneilly;
index index.php;
server_name jonathanneilly.co.uk;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ .php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
# With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
}
Create a symbolic link to enabled sites
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/jonathanneilly /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Restart Nginx
service nginx restart
Navigate to your URL and follow the install steps
Create a database for your site and enter the details here
Follow the final steps then navigate to your URL
You’re done! Check out some of the great free plugins and themes and you’ll have your site up in no time!