LAMP and WordPress Installation and Configuration

Linux and Apache and MySQL and PHP and WordPress

• sudo apt-get install apache2
• sudo apt-get install php
• sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
• sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart (The previous four steps is for installing the Apache and PHP)
• sudo apt-get install mysql-server
• sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql
• sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
• sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart(These four steps are for installing the MySQL)
• sudo ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled (make sure that there are files php5.conf and php5.load, if not, sudo a2enmod php5)
• Now you can install the wordpress now, but we can inatll the phpMyAdmin which would make your admin work more easier.
• Download the phpMyAdmin package from its site, and unpackage it under the /var/www as /var/www/phpMyAdmin
• sudo cp /var/www/phpmyadmin/config.sample.inc.php /var/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
• Edit this file ./var/www/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
• Find the "blowfish_sercet" and fill any charater after it.
• Edit the file /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
  
• Add extension=php5-mcrypt.so
• sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/
• Install the wordpress, Upackage under the /var/www as /var/www/wordpress
• mysql -u youraccount -p in the shell
• create database yourdatabasename ;
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO hello@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘666666′
• FLUSH PRIVILEGES
• exit
• Now you can access the http://localhost/wordpress, then you would be guided to config.