Consider installing Wordpress CMS on Ubuntu 20.04 with LAMP preinstalled. Similarly, you can add multiple sites to one server. The guide will also be relevant for transferring sites, for example, from shared hosting to a VPS server.
We make all settings from the root user, if you are using a regular user, add before the command sudo.
1. Download the latest version of wordpress
apt update && sudo apt upgrade
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
apt install unzip
mkdir -p /var/www/
unzip latest.zip -d /var/www/
mv /var/www/wordpress /var/www/domain.tld
2. Create a database and write in the settings
mariadb -u root
create database wpdomain;
grant all privileges on wpdomain.* to user@localhost identified by 'your-password';
flush privileges;
exit;
Now we will specify all this data in the configuration file wp-config.php
cd /var/www/domain.tld/
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
nano wp-config.php
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wpdomain');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'user');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your-password');
Save the changes CTRL + O, Enter and exit CTRL + X
3. Web service setup
Assign rights and create a configuration file for our domain:
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/domain.tld/ -RLet's create a configuration file:
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain.tld.conf
ServerName www.domain.tld
ServerAlias domain.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.tld
#This enables .htaccess file, which is needed for WordPress Permalink to work.
AllowOverride All
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain.tld.error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain.tld.access.log combined
Let's restart the services:
apache2ctl configtest
a2ensite domain.tld.conf
systemctl reload apache2
/etc/init.d/php7.4-fpm restart
Change domain.tld to your already configured in the DNS editor to the ip address of the VPS server. Thus, you can add several sites by analogy. Go to the browser using the configured http://domain.tld/ domain and complete the installation in the browser. You will be prompted to select a language, specify an administrator username and password. This completes the installation. In case of site transfer, you can place existing files and import the database.