How to setup WordPress CMS in Rocky Linux/RHEL

Step 1: Update Your System in Rocky Linux

# yum update

Step 2: Installation process of LAMP(means Linux, Apache, MySql/MariaDB, and PHP. To run WordPress, we need a web server, a database server, and PHP.)

Install Apache Web Server

# yum install httpd
# systemctl start httpd
# systemctl enable httpd
# systemctl status httpd

Install MariaDB or MySql in Rocky Linux

# yum install mysql-server
        or
# yum install mariadb-server
# systemctl start mysqld
# systemctl enable mysql
# systemctl status mysql
       or
# systemctl start mariadb
# systemctl enable mariadb
# systemctl status mariadb

PHP Installation in Rocky Linux

# yum install php php-mysqlnd php-gd php-xml php-mbstring

# systemctl restart httpd
# systemctl status httpd

# yum install wget
# wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

# tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

# cp -rpf wordpress/* /var/www/html/wordpress/
# cd /var/www/html/wordpress/
# ls

# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wordpress/
# chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress/

Step 4: Configuration of Database

# mysql -u root -p
# create database wordpress;
# show databases;

# create user 'wordpress'@'localhost' identified by 'Ak123!@#';
# grant all privileges on wordpress.* to 'wordpress'@'localhost';
# flush privileges;
# exit;
# mysql -u wordpress -p

# mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

#vim wp-config.php
#define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' );
#define( 'DB_USER', 'wordpress' );

# cd /etc/httpd/conf.d
# mkdir wordpress.conf
# vim wordpress.conf

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.21:80> or <VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName    wordpress
ServerAlias   wordpress.com
DocumentRoot  /var/www/html/wordpress
ErrorLog      /var/log/httpd/wordpress_error.log
CustomLog     /var/log/httpd/wordpress_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>