Downloading Wordpress from the internet:
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Step 1: Login to server and choose the particular user directory
Step 2: Navigate to public_html folder
Step 3: Run the below commands to download wordpress zip file from the internet and extract the wordpress files on the wordpress installation directory.
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Command: wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xfz latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress/* ./
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Installing Wordpress:
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Step 1: Login to mysql console. If you logged in as root then, just enter ‘mysql’ on the command line. In order to login as particular user, run the below command line.
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mysql -u username -p
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Step 2: Now we have to create the database for the user directory. We can do it either by the cPanel database option or command line.
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create database yourwordpress_dbname;
grant usage on *.* to username@localhost identified by ‘password’;
grant all privileges on yourwordpress_dbname.* to username@localhost;
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The first command create the database, Second command allows the user to connect the database. Third command grant all privileges to the user.
Step 3: Alternatively, you can follow the below steps to create the database via cPanel interface and set to the wordpress installtion.
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From cPanel: Login to your cPanel > Database section > mysql databases > Create database and user > Assign user to the joomla database
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Step 4: Now, we need to configure the database via configuration file of Wordpress installation, go to the wordpress installation directory and excute the below command.
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vi wp-config.php
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You can use your favourate text editor, here we are using ‘vi’. Once the ‘wp-config.php’ opened, type ‘i’ to edit the file and modify the database name, username and password details as shown in the below snippet.
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* MySQL settings
define( ‘DB_NAME’, ‘database_name_here’ );
define( ‘DB_USER’, ‘username_here’ );
define( ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password_here’ )
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Step 5: Now visit your website via browser and ensure the wordpress installation completed successfully.