How to Install Latest WordPress on CentOS, RHEL & Fedora

WordPress is the most popular content management system. Its created with PHP programming language and uses MySQL as the backend database. This article will help you to install latest WordPress 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 Latest WordPress

These latest version of WordPress are always available here (.tar.gz) and here (.zip). You can download any files to your system. Use belwo command to download gzip file of latest WordPress to your system using the following command.

$ cd /var/www/html
$ wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded archive to the document root of your 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 commands to create database and user after login with the privileged user.

# mysql -u root -p

Step 3 – Configure Apache VirtualHost

Now the time is to create and configure 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 webmaster@tecadmin.net
    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 virtual host created in the config file, make sure to enable NameVirtulHost for using multiple VirtualHosts.

Reload Apache service to read configuration file again.

$ systemctl restart httpd.service

Step 4 – Install Latest WordPress with 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 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 the world.

Congratulation! You have successfully installed WordPress.