How to install Wordpress on Lubuntu 16.04

Wordpress is the most popular blog platform in the universe, in this article i'm going to show you how to install wordpress on local computer running lubuntu 16.04 operating system.

Wordpress is php-based blog platform/cms, therefore we need to have php and of course a web server installed on our lubuntu, also you need to have mysql database server, because wordpress is using mysql for storing data.

Step by step how to install wordpress on lubuntu 16.04

• make sure you have apache web server installed
• make sure you have php and mysql installed
• make sure apache mod rewrite is enable
• install wordpress package

sudo apt-get install wordpress

• create new file called wordpress.conf

sudo leafpad /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

• copy paste this code and save

Alias /blog /usr/share/wordpress
<Directory /usr/share/wordpress>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride Limit Options FileInfo
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

• run this command to enable wordpress.conf

sudo a2ensite wordpress

• restart apache web server

sudo service apache2 reload

• create new file called config-localhost.php

sudo leafpad /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php

• copy paste this code and save (the database name, user and password should match your own mysql configuration)

<?php
define('DB_NAME', 'lubuntu_wordpress');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'entering');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/usr/share/wordpress/wp-content');
?>

• create symbolic link for config.localhost.php

sudo ln -s /etc/wordpress/config-localhost.php /etc/wordpress/config-default.php

• open url http://localhost/blog/

http://localhost/blog/

• finish the wordpress installation setup (create username and password for the blog admin)
• enjoy your new wordpress blog on http://localhost/blog/

Note :
you can go to http://localhost/blog/wp-admin/ to open the wordpress dashboard and login with username and password for the blog admin.