Step‑by‑Step Guide to Deploying WordPress on a Linux Server with Nginx, PHP, and MySQL

WordPress is a PHP‑based blogging platform that can also serve as a content management system (CMS) on servers that support PHP and MySQL.

The article explains how to deploy WordPress on a Linux server.

Download the latest Chinese package from the official site: https://cn.wordpress.org/ .

2.1 Extract the package

cd /home/www tar -xzvf wordpress-4.8-zh_CN.tar.gz

2.2 Create the database and user

In MySQL (or via phpMyAdmin) create a database named wordpress and grant privileges to a user:

mysql> create database wordpress; mysql> grant all on wordpress.* to wordpress@'192.168.137.%' identified by "123456"; flush privileges;

2.3 Configure WordPress

Copy the files to the web root and edit wp-config.php :

cp -rp wordpress/* /home/www/ cp /home/www/wp-config-sample.php /home/www/wp-config.php vim /home/www/wp-config.php

Set the database constants:

define('DB_NAME','wordpress'); define('DB_USER','wordpress'); define('DB_PASSWORD','123456'); define('DB_HOST','192.168.137.133');

Adjust directory permissions as needed.

Nginx configuration (excerpt)

user nginx nginx; worker_processes 1; worker_rlimit_nofile 65535; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; sendfile on; keepalive_timeout 65; server { listen 80; server_name localhost; location / { root /home/www; index index.php index.html index.htm; } location ~ \.php$ { root /home/www; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } } }

4. Test the installation

Open http://192.168.137.133/index.php in a browser, complete the setup wizard (site name, admin user, password, email, etc.), and then access the admin dashboard at http://192.168.137.133/wp-admin/ . The personal site can be viewed at http://172.18.50.75/ .