How to Install WordPress 4.4 on CentOS, RHEL & Fedora

WordPress is a free, open source a content-management system (CMS) and blogging tool based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress has released newer Version 4.0 On September 4, 2014 named for jazz musician Jimmy Smith. This version released with improved visual editing, speed, accessibility, and mobile support . Click here to know more about this version of WordPress.

This article will help you to install WordPress 4.4 on LAMP environment on CentOS, RHEL & Fedora systems. For this tutorial we assume that you already have LAMP setup on your system. If you do not have LAMP setup use below article to install it. Setup LAMP Stack on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora

Step 1: Download WordPress Archive and Extract

Download WordPress archive file using wget command from CLI.

# cd /var/www/html
# wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

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

# tar xzf latest.tar.gz
# chown -R apache.apache wordpress
# chmod -R 755 wordpress

Step 2: Create MySQL Database and User

After extracting code we need to 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 3: Configure Apache VirtualHost

Edit apache configuration file and add a new virtual host for WordPress setup like below.

# vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add following setting at end of file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
    ServerName svr1.tecadmin.net
    <Directory "/var/www/html/wordpress">
         Allowoverride All
     </Directory>
    ErrorLog logs/svr1.tecadmin.net-error_log
    CustomLog logs/svr1.tecadmin.net-access_log combined
</VirtualHost>

If you already have another virtualhost created in config file, make sure to enable NameVirtulHost for using multiple VirtualHosts.

Reload Apache service to read configuration file again.

# service httpd reload

Step 4: Finish Installation using 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.

4.1. Open URL in Browser and Click on Create a configuration file.

4.2 In this step just click on Let’s Go button.

4.3. Fill the database details and click “Submit“.

4.4 After submitting database details, click on “Run the Install“.

4.5 Enter following details for your WordPress Install and click on Install WordPress Button

• Blog Title
• Username of admin account (for security do not use as “admin”)
• Admin password ( twice )
• Email ID

4.6 After completing above step, You have installed WordPress successfully, Now you will get WordPress success installation message.

Step 5: Login To WordPress Admin Panel

After completing above installation, you will be redirected to admin panel login screen or you can open url in browser like below

 http://svr1.tecadmin.net/wp-admin/

After entering correct login details, you will be redirected to WordPress admin dashboard. where you can create a beautiful blog and connect with world.

Congratulation! You have successfully installed WordPress.