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Project - Wordpress-Mysql-Nginx-Redhat

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• Project - Wordpress-Mysql-Nginx-Redhat
  • Prerequisites
  • Install Nginx Web Server
  • Install PHP Programing Language
  • Install Mysql Server
  • Install PHP-FPM and Additional PHP Modules
  • Install WordPress in RHEL
  • Configure Nginx for WordPress

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Prerequisites

# update packages
sudo dnf update -y

Install Nginx Web Server

• install and enable nginx

# install NGINX.
sudo dnf install -y nginx

# enable Nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx

• edit firewall rules to allow HTTP requests on web server

sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

• Verify
  • Visit ip address in browser, nginx test page is available.

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Install PHP Programing Language

• install PHP

sudo dnf install -y php php-mysqlnd php-pdo php-gd php-mbstring

• restart web server so that Nginx knows that it will be serving PHP requests

sudo systemctl restart nginx

• Test:
  • test a PHP by creating a simple info.php file
  • brownse http://server-ip-address/info.php

sudo vi /usr/share/nginx/html/info.php
# <?php phpinfo() ?>

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Install Mysql Server

• Install mysql server package

# Install MySQL server packages:
sudo dnf install -y mysql-server
# Start the mysqld service
sudo systemctl start mysqld.service
# Enable the mysqld service to start at boot
sudo systemctl enable mysqld.service

• Create Database for WordPress

sudo mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER wordpress@localhost identified by 'wordpress123';
GRANT ALL on wordpress.* to wordpress@localhost;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

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Install PHP-FPM and Additional PHP Modules

sudo dnf install -y php php-mysqlnd php-pdo php-gd php-mbstring php-fpm

#  enable and start the PHP-FPM daemon.
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm
sudo systemctl start php-fpm

• Configure PHP-FPM

sudo vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

# modify the user and group attributes to nginx
# user = nginx
# group = nginx

• Restart

sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
# verify
# sudo systemctl status php-fpm

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Install WordPress in RHEL

cd ~
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip
cp wordpress/wp-config-sample.php wordpress/wp-config.php
vi ~/wordpress/wp-config.php

/** MySQL database name */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wordpress123');

• Copy

sudo cp -R wordpress /usr/share/nginx/html
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /usr/share/nginx/html
sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/share/nginx/html

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Configure Nginx for WordPress

• create a server block file for WordPress

sudo vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf
sudo cat > /etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf <<EOF
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost 192.168.204.153;

    root /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
    }

    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}
EOF

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• modify the Nginx main configuration file
  • Locate the line that starts with root and specify the path to the webroot directory.

sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# root         /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress;

• Test syntax

sudo nginx -t

• restart Nginx and PHP-FPM services.

sudo systemctl restart nginx
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm

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• set SELinux to permissive.

sudo vim /etc/selinux/config

# SELINUX=permissive

sudo reboot
# verify
getenforce

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• Visit http://ip in browser.