How to install wordpress with Nginx on AWS EC2 instance

This tutorial will show you how to configure wordpress in nginx server in 10 steps 

Step: 1

First of all we update our server, this command used to update the package lists on your instance server

sudo apt-get update

Step: 2

Putting a command on a single line is all it takes to install NGINX in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install nginx -y

We check our nginx status

sudo systemctl status nginx

Here shows this in our server

Step: 3

You must set up PHP as well as the PHP-FPM service because WordPress is a PHP application. Because Nginx does not allow native PHP processing like some other web servers do, we must install php-fpm, also referred to as the fast CGI process manager. To process PHP requests, Nginx will be told to route them to this application.

sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql -y

Step: 4

Install mysql to manage our database

sudo apt-get install mysql-server -y

you can test if installation has worked by checking the status

Step: 5

Create mysql user and database for our wordpress

Mysql login command:

sudo mysql -u root -p

Create a database for our wordpress:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

create a user for our database:

CREATE USER ‘wordpressuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;

This mysql command allows users to grant their privileges to other users.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO ‘wordpressuser’@’localhost’;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES instructs TiDB to reload the in-memory copy of privileges from the privilege tables

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Exit out of mysql

Exit

Step: 6

The next step is to set up Nginx to operate with PHP.

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Find the index line in the server block, then add index.php to the list of files. Additionally, search for the server_name directive and change its value to the public IP address or domain name of your server.

Look for the try_files directive in the location / block and substitute the following line:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

inside the server block, add the location .php$ block :

location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock; }

Save the document, then exit. If everything is in order, check the Nginx configuration and restart the Nginx service:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

sudo nginx -t

Step: 7

You should first download the compressed WordPress file from the /tmp directory:

cd /tmp

WordPress can now be downloaded and installed IN ZIP file format.

curl -LO https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Unzip the file:

tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

Move the file to your Nginx document root

sudo cp -a /tmp/wordpress/. /var/www/html

Step: 8

Access to the wp-config.php configuration file is required by WordPress. By copying from a model file, you can create this file even though it doesn’t by default exist:

cd /var/www/html

sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Open the wordpress configure file

sudo nano wp-config.php

Locate the section containing the database connection settings, and then change the values for DB_NAME, DB_USER, and DB_PASSWORD to reflect the particulars of the database you made:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpressuser’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’);

Save and close the file.

And now we refresh the page