WordPress
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. For Wordpress a bunch of plugins are available.
Install lighttpd, PHP, and MySql
Basic Installation
For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index
Install the required packages:
# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi
Configure Lighttpd
Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:
Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.
Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf
Start lighttpd
service and add it to default runlevel
# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default
Install extra packages:
apk add wget mysql mysql-client php82-mysqli
Restart Lighttpd:
rc-service lighttpd restart
Installing and configuring WordPress
Create a directory named webapps
mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/
Download the latest Wordpress source files
cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Unpack the archive and delete it afterwards
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz rm latest.tar.gz
Change the folder persmissions
chown -R lighttpd /usr/share/webapps/
Create a symlink to the wordpress folder
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/wordpress/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/wordpress
Config and start MySql
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql rc-service mariadb start && rc-update add mariadb default /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'
(Change the 'password' to a strong password)
Create the WordPress database
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE wordpress; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT
(Change the 'wordpress password' to a strong password)
Config your WordPress
Browse to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/wordpress/
- Click on: "Create a Configuration File"
- Click on: "Let’s go!"
- Database Name: wordpress
- User Name: wordpress
- Password: <wordpress password>
- Database Host: localhost
- Table Prefix: wp_
You may need create the wp-config.php manually, so modify define the 'DB_NAME', DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD, then copy and paste the text into it. After you've done that, click "Run the install."
- Enter Information as needed
- Site Title
- Username
- Password, twice
- Your E-mail
After you've done that, click "Install WordPress"
You have WordPress working, to access go to http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/wordpress and enjoy!