How To Install WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10 and 14.04

Install WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10 & 14.04WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.WordPress is installed on a web server, which either is part of an Internet hosting service or is a network host itself; the first case may be on a service like WordPress.com, for example, and the second case is a computer running the software package WordPress.org.

Step 1 – Setup LEMP Stack

First we will add all required PPA to our system. Following commands will add PPA for Nginx, PHP5 and MySQL on your system.

$ echo "deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ `lsb_release -cs` nginx"  >> /etc/apt/sources.list

$ echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ `lsb_release -cs` nginx" >> /etc/apt/sources.list


$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Example:-
root@ip-172-31-27-102:~# sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python-software-properties
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 138 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us-west-2.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe python-software-properties all 0.92.37.7 [19.6 kB]
Fetched 19.6 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package python-software-properties.
(Reading database ... 51150 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python-software-properties_0.92.37.7_all.deb ...
Unpacking python-software-properties (0.92.37.7) ...
Setting up python-software-properties (0.92.37.7) ...
root@ip-172-31-27-102:~# sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.5
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpmlk2941t/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpmlk2941t/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpmlk2941t/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ondřej Surý" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK


$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.5


Example : - 
root@ip-172-31-27-102:~# sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mysql-5.5
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpmlk2941t/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpmlk2941t/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpmlk2941t/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ondřej Surý" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK


$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5

Example : -
root@ip-172-31-27-102:~# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
 This PPA contains latest PHP 5.5 packaged for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty).

You can get more information about the packages at https://deb.sury.org

If you need other PHP versions use:
  PHP 5.4: ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
  PHP 5.5: ppa:ondrej/php5 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
  PHP 5.6: ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
  PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0: ppa:ondrej/php (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

BUGS&FEATURES: This PPA now has a issue tracker: https://deb.sury.org/pages/bugreporting.html

PLEASE READ: If you like my work and want to give me a little motivation, please consider donating: https://deb.sury.org/pages/donate.html

WARNING: add-apt-repository is broken with non-UTF-8 locales, see https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/56 for workaround:

# apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base
# LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php5
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpq141jr43/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpq141jr43/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key E5267A6C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpq141jr43/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key E5267A6C: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ondřej Surý" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

and now use following commands to install Nginx web server, PHP5 with PHP5-FPM and MySQL server.

$ curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | apt-key add -


Example : - 
root@ip-172-31-27-102:~# curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | apt-key add -
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1559  100  1559    0     0  11066      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 11056
OK


$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nginx php5 php5-fpm  mysql-server php5-mysql

Set Mysql Password ...

Step 2 — Configure PHP-FPM

PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features.

$ sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

un-comment cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 line and set value to 0.

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

Now set the listen parameter in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf configuration file. Here you can use php5-fpm socket to work or start php5-fpm server on any port as service. We are going to use it as service.

$ sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Now make changes in configuration file as below. Commend listen with socket file and enable it as service

#listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000

Step 3 — Download and Configure WordPress

Download Latest WordPress archive file from its office web using following command.

$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

root@ip-172-31-27-102:/var/www/html# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
--2016-02-16 12:20:04--  http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Resolving wordpress.org (wordpress.org)... 66.155.40.250, 66.155.40.249
Connecting to wordpress.org (wordpress.org)|66.155.40.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz [following]
--2016-02-16 12:20:05--  https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Connecting to wordpress.org (wordpress.org)|66.155.40.250|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7099520 (6.8M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘latest.tar.gz’

100%[=============================================================================================================================>] 7,099,520   11.6MB/s   in 0.6s

2016-02-16 12:20:05 (11.6 MB/s) - ‘latest.tar.gz’ saved [7099520/7099520]

root@ip-172-31-27-102:/var/www/html#

Extract archive in document root of you domain and update permissions on files.

$ tar xzf latest.tar.gz
$ sudo mv wordpress /var/www/example.com
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/example.com
$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/example.com

Step 4 — Create MySQL Database and User

After extracting WordPress codebase, Let’s create a mysql database and user account for configuring WordPress. Use following set of command to do it

$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:

mysql> CREATE DATABASE wp_db;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON wp_db.* to 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '_secret_password_';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit

Step 5 — Configure Nginx VirtualHost

Finally do the configuration of Nginx server block (Virtual Host). For this example we are creating a new configuration file for our domain example.com.

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/example.com.conf

and make changes as below.

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

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
              root /usr/share/nginx/www;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }
}

After installing all services on your system, start all required services.

$ sudo service nginx restart
$ sudo service php5-fpm restart

Step 6 — Start WordPress Web Installer

WordPress provides a web installer for easy to setup WordPress without editing files manually. After completing above steps just point your browser to your domain. Fill the database details and click Submit