How To Install WordPress with LEMP on Fedora 40

To set up WordPress on Fedora 40 with the LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP), follow the steps below.

Step 1 : Install LEMP Stack

If you haven't already installed the LEMP stack, you can follow the instructions in the Fedora 40 Guides article.

Step 2 : Create Database

- Log in to MySQL:

sudo mysql

- Create a database and a user:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;
CREATE USER 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress_db.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 3 : Download and Install WordPress

- Create a directory for WordPress

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

- Navigate to the WordPress directory

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

- Download the latest WordPress release

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

- Extract the downloaded file

sudo tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

- Move WordPress files to the root directory

sudo mv wordpress/* .

- Set permissions

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

- Clean up

sudo rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz

Step 4 : Create a new Nginx server block configuration file:

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

- Add the following configuration to the file:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.devtutorial.io;
    root /var/www/html/example.devtutorial.io;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;


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


    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Step 5 : Test the configuration and restart Nginx.

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 6 : If SELinux is enabled, run the command:

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