This Tutorial was written on Ubuntu 20.04.

Install

• Login as root
• Update and upgrade

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Install Apache

• Install, start and enable Apache2

apt-get install apache2
systemctl enable --now apache2

• Install requirenments and dependencies

apt-get install gnupg2 ca-certificates apt-transport-https software-properties-common

Install PHP

echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
wget -qO - https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | apt-key add -

• Update and install

apt-get update -y
apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-pear php-cgi php-common php-mbstring php-zip php-net-socket php-gd php-xml-util php-gettext php-mysql php-bcmath unzip wget git

Install MariaDB

• Install, start and enable mariadb

apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client
systemctl enable --now mariadb

• Now do the installation wizard:

mysql_secure_installation

Configure

Create WordPress Database

• Login to the mysql shell

mysql -u root -p

• Create database and user. Replace strongpassword with a random password, you are going to need it later.

CREATE DATABASE wordpressdb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpressdb.* to wordpressuser@localhost identified by 'strongpassword';

• Flush privileges and exit

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;

Download WordPress

• Go to the Webserver Root directory

cd /var/www/html

• Download and unzip the latest WordPress release

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip

Setup Site config

• Move the WordPress folder to a folder named like your domain (optional)

mv wordpress yourdomain.com

• Copy sample config

cd yourdomain.com
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

• Edit config

nano wp-config.php

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpressdb' );

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

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

/** MySQL hostname */
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

• Change owner of wordpress content to www-data

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/yourdomain.com

Apache Virtual Host

• Create and edit site config (change yourdomain.conf every time)

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yourdomain.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin user@yourdomain.com
        ServerName yourdomain.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/yourdomain.com

        <Directory "https://yourdomain.com/var/www/html/yourdomain.com">
             AllowOverride All
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain.error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain.access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

• Enable this config

a2ensite yourdomain
a2enmod rewrite
systemctl restart apache2

Install via WebGUI

• Now you can access the WordPress instance via the local IP Adress and do the initial setup.
• Then setup port-forwarding and open it up to the internet

Secure

Enable HTTPS with certbot

• Install Certbot

apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-apache -y

• Download and activate cert (Replace yourdomain.com)

certbot --apache --agree-tos --redirect --hsts --uir --staple-ocsp --email user@yourdomain.com -d yourdomain.com,www.yourdomain.com

Automatic Cert renewal

• Open crontab

crontab -e

• Add the following line at the bottom

@daily certbot renew --quiet && systemctl reload apache2

Update

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