Wordpress Installation on LEMP Server - Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySql

Note: This installation assumes you using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop.

Step 1: Update

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: MySQL Installation and Setup

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

• Setup Wordpress database in MySql

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

CREATE USER wordpressuser@localhost;

SET PASSWORD FOR wordpressuser@localhost= PASSWORD("password");

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

Step 3: Nginx Installation and Setup

sudo apt-get install nginx

• Setup nginx server block for wordpress

sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

Add the following:

Note:rename example with your application name

server {
        server_name example.com www.example.com;

        access_log   /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log;
        error_log    /var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;

        root /home/user/path/sites/wordpress;
        index index.php;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                include fastcgi_params;
                #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        }
}

save and exit

• Activate the server block

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wordpress

sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Restart Nginx

sudo service nginx restart

Step 4: PHP Installation

sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

Step 5: Download Wordpress

cd sites/

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

tar xvf latest.tar.gz

• Configure Wordpress

cd wordpress

cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

sudo nano wp-config.php

NOTE: Enter the DBName, DBUser, and DBPassword that you created for wordpress database in mysql

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

save and exit

• Set the correct ownership to the directory

chown -R user:usergroup . 

usermod -a -G usergroup <user>

Step 6: Install php5-mysql

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Step 7: Restart Services

sudo service nginx restart

sudo service php5-fpm restart

Step 8: add example.com to /etc/hosts

sudo nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       example.com

Step 9: Setup wp-admin panel

Open your Browser and goto following address to setup your admin account

example.com/wp-admin/install.php

To login into your wordpress dashboard

example.com/wp-admin

And you are good to go..