How To Install WordPress with LAMP on Rocky Linux 9

To install WordPress on Rocky Linux 9 with a LAMP stack, follow the steps below.

Step 1 : Install LAMP Stack

If you haven't installed the LAMP stack, follow the instructions in the "Rocky Linux 9 Guides" article.

Step 2 : Create Database

- Login to MySQL:

sudo mysql

- Create a new user and database:

CREATE DATABASE db_wp;
CREATE USER 'user_wp'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON db_wp.* TO 'user_wp'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;

Step 3 : Download and Install WordPress

- Create a directory for your WordPress site:

sudo mkdir /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io

- Change to the new directory:

cd /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io

- Download WordPress:

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

- Extract the archive:

tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

- Move files:

mv wordpress/* .

- Set permissions

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io

- Remove unnecessary files:

rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz

Step 4 : Create a virtual host configuration file for your WordPress site.

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/example.devtutorial.io.conf

Add the following configuration

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@devtutorial.io
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io
    ServerName example.devtutorial.io

    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/example.devtutorial.io_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/example.devtutorial.io_access.log combined

    <Directory /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io>
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Step 5 : If SELinux is enabled, set the appropriate context:

sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io(/.*)?"
sudo restorecon -Rv /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io