Install Wordpress on a VPS: A Step by Step Guide

Find out how to install Wordpress on a VPS (Virtual Private Server), setup a LAMP stack and configure a Wordpress site.

In this Wordpress course you'll learn how to install Wordpress on a Virtual Private Server from start to finish.

It is recommend you are: familiar with Wordpress and have a basic Linux understanding.

You can use any VPS you like (ideally running Ubuntu), the course itself uses a VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 with Digital Ocean - getting started with this setup is covered first of all in the course.

Next, you'll learn how to install and setup a LAMP stack consisting of Apache 2, MySQL and PHP.

Then a MySQL database for Wordpress is setup, followed by Apache 2 and PHP tweaks for Wordpress.

The course then moves on to installing the Wordpress files from scratch by downloading the source code; extracting and configuring the file system correctly (Linux file permissions and ownership); and, finally the Wordpress script (wp_config.php) is configured correctly.

Lastly, the course covers the front-end web interface install steps for Wordpress and basic Wordpress site configuration.

What you’ll learn
How to setup from scratch Wordpress on a VPS (Virtual Private Server)
How to install configure a MySQL database for Wordpress
How to install and configure Apache 2 for Wordpress
How to install a new Wordpress site in a systematic way