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Install WordPress with Nginx + PHP + MySQL

Install WordPress on a LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) optimized for performance.

Install WordPress with LEMP

The LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) is the most efficient combination for WordPress in production.

Step 1 — Install Nginx

bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo systemctl enable nginx

Step 2 — Install MySQL

bash
sudo apt install mysql-server -y
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Step 3 — Create WordPress database

bash
sudo mysql -u root -p

sql
CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'SecurePassword123!';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 4 — Install PHP-FPM

bash
sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-soap php-xml php-zip -y

Step 5 — Download WordPress

bash
cd /tmp
curl -LO https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xzf latest.tar.gz
sudo mv wordpress /var/www/mysite
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/mysite
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/mysite

Step 6 — Configure Nginx

Create /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite:

nginx
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;
    root /var/www/mysite;
    index index.php index.html;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    client_max_body_size 64M;
}

Enable the site:

bash
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

Step 7 — Complete installation

Open http://YOUR_IP in a browser and follow the WordPress setup wizard with your database credentials.

Step 8 — Install SSL with Certbot

bash
sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx -y
sudo certbot --nginx -d mysite.com -d www.mysite.com

Your WordPress is now running optimized on your Baires Host VPS with Nginx.

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