WordPress is a powerful, free and open-source, highly pluggable and customizable CMS that is being used by millions around the world to run blogs and fully functional websites.
In this tutorial, we install and configure the latest WordPress using run single shell script on centos LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, PhpMyAdmin) stack.
This Script will be working on all CentOS versions.
What this script does:
- Install Apache Web server
- Install PHP
- Uninstall MySQL if exist
- Install MySQL
- Install latest Wordpress
- Configure Wordpress with Apache
- Configure Wordpress with MySql
- Install PhpMyAdmin
For Install Wordpress Create a Wordpress.sh file
sudo vim Wordpress.sh Insert Below script in Wordpress.sh file and save.
#!/bin/bash
#######################################
# Bash script to install WordPress on CentOS
# Author: Subhash (serverkaka.com)
# Check if running as root
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
## Ask value for mysql root password and DB name
mysqlRootPass="$(pwmake 32)"
read -p 'wordpress_db_name [wp_db]: ' wordpress_db_name
#read -p 'db_root_password [only-alphanumeric]: ' db_root_password
echo
## Prerequisite
yum install -y wget
## Check Current directory
pwd=$(pwd)
## Install Apache
yum install -y httpd
systemctl start httpd
## Set apache autostart at system reboot
sudo systemctl enable httpd
## Allow Apache via Firewall
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
systemctl restart firewalld
## Install PHP
yum install php php-mysql php-pdo php-gd php-mbstring -y
## Install MySql
# Removing previous mysql server installation
systemctl stop mysqld.service && yum remove -y mysql-community-server && rm -rf /var/lib/mysql && rm -rf /var/log/mysqld.log && rm -rf /etc/my.cnf
## Installing mysql server (community edition)'
yum localinstall -y https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-7.noarch.rpm
yum install -y mysql-community-server
## Starting mysql server (first run)'
systemctl enable mysqld.service
systemctl start mysqld.service
tempRootDBPass="`grep 'temporary.*root@localhost' /var/log/mysqld.log | tail -n 1 | sed 's/.*root@localhost: //'`"
## Setting up new mysql server root password'
systemctl stop mysqld.service
rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/*logfile*
wget -O /etc/my.cnf "https://my-site.com/downloads/mysql/512MB.cnf"
systemctl start mysqld.service
mysqladmin -u root --password="$tempRootDBPass" password "$mysqlRootPass"
mysql -u root --password="$mysqlRootPass" -e <<-EOSQL
DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User='';
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS test;
DELETE FROM mysql.db WHERE Db='test' OR Db='test\\_%';
DELETE FROM mysql.user where user != 'mysql.sys';
CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '${mysqlRootPass}';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EOSQL
systemctl status mysqld.service
## Install Latest WordPress
rm /var/www/html/index.*
wget -c http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
rsync -av wordpress/* /var/www/html/
## Set Permissions
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/
## Configure WordPress Database
mysql -uroot -p$mysqlRootPass <<QUERY_INPUT
CREATE DATABASE $wordpress_db_name;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON $wordpress_db_name.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$mysqlRootPass';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT
QUERY_INPUT
## Add Database Credentias in wordpress
cd /var/www/html/
sudo mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
perl -pi -e "s/database_name_here/$wordpress_db_name/g" wp-config.php
perl -pi -e "s/username_here/root/g" wp-config.php
perl -pi -e "s/password_here/$mysqlRootPass/g" wp-config.php
## Restart Apache and Mysql
systemctl restart httpd
systemctl restart mysqld.service
## Cleaning Download
cd $pwd
rm -rf latest.tar.gz wordpress
echo "Installation is complete. Mysql root user passwoed is $mysqlRootPass"
Give execute permission to Wordpress.sh file
Finally, now run Wordpress.sh file
After successfully script execute, Go to a browser and hit http://localhost/
sudo chmod +x Wordpress.sh
Finally, now run Wordpress.sh file
sudo ./Wordpress.sh
After successfully script execute, Go to a browser and hit http://localhost/
