Deploy Wordpress with LEMP Stack Ubuntu 24.04

Install Nginx

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx

Install MariaDB

sudo apt install mariadb-server
sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Create a Database for WordPress

sudo mysql -u root -p

Then in the MariaDB shell:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Install PHP and Required Extensions

sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql php-xml php-mbstring php-curl php-gd php-zip

Configure Nginx for WordPress

Create a server block config:

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

Insert the following, updating your_domain accordingly:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name your_domain;
    root /var/www/wordpress;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Enable the configuration and reload Nginx:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

Download and Set Up WordPress

cd /tmp
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
sudo rsync -avP wordpress/ /var/www/wordpress/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/wordpress/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Configure wp-config.php

cd /var/www/wordpress
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Edit these lines in wp-config.php:

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
define('DB_USER', 'wpuser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your_password');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Complete WordPress Installation

Visit http://your_domain in your web browser to finish the installation via the WordPress web interface.

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You now have a LEMP stack with MariaDB and WordPress running on Ubuntu 24.04.