• Install the LAMP stack

yum groupinstall “Web Server” “PHP Support” “MySQL Database server” “MySQL Database client”

• Add PHP-MySQL support

yum install php-mysql

• Start Apache

service httpd start

systemctl start httpd

• Set Apache to automatically start on boot

chkconfig httpd on

systemctl enable httpd

• Start MySQL

service mysqld start

systemctl start mysqld

• Set MySQL to automatically start on boot

chkconfig mysqld on

systemctl enable mysqld

• To set a password for the MySQL root user.

mysqladmin -u root password ‘new-password’

• Or run wizard to set a MySQL root password. This will guide you through a wizard. Say Yes to all the options.

/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

• Access the MySQL shell

 mysql -uroot -pYourPassword

or

mysql –user=root –password=YourPassword

• Create a database

create database wordpressdb;

• Set permissions

grant all privileges on wordpressdb.* to ‘wordpressdb’@’localhost’ identified by ‘YOURNEWPASS’;

• Activate permissions

flush privileges;

• Exit the MySQL shell

exit;

• Change directory to /root

cd /root

• Download WordPress

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

if wget not available, install it by

yum install wget

• Extract WordPress

tar -xvzf /root/latest.tar.gz -C /target/directory

• Sync the extracted files to your DocumentRoot

rsync -avz wordpress/ /var/www/

if rsync not available, install it by

yum install rsync

• Remove the wordpress source files

rm latest.tar.gz
rm -rf wordpress/

• Create the WordPress config file by copying from the sample file

cp /var/www/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wp-config.php

• Set the database credentials in /var/www/wp-config.php

sed -i ‘s/database_name_here/your-db/’ /var/www/wp-config.php

sed -i ‘s/username_here/your-username/’ /var/www/wp-config.php

sed -i ‘s/password_here/your-password/’ /var/www/wp-config.php

sed -i ‘s/localhost/your-dbserver/’ /var/www/wp-config.php

• Set Apache user as the owner for your DocumentRoot

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/yoursite

• Modify permissions

chmod -R 400 /var/www/html/yoursite

chmod -R a+X /var/www/html/yoursite

chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/yoursite/wp-content