How To Install Wordpress on Centos 6

Pre-requisites

Root privileges on the VPS

LEMP installed on the VPS

Step One—Download WordPress

wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz 

Step Two—Create the WordPress Database and User

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

CREATE USER wordpressuser@localhost;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

SET PASSWORD FOR wordpressuser@localhost= PASSWORD("password");

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

exit

Step Three—Setup the WordPress Configuration

cp ~/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php ~/wordpress/wp-config.php

vi ~/wordpress/wp-config.php

Find the section that have below fields and change in the correct name for your database, username, and password:

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for WordPress */

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */

define('DB_USER', 'wordpressuser');

/** MySQL database password */

define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

Save and Exit.

Step Four—Copy the Files

sudo cp -r ~/wordpress/* /var/www/html

sudo yum install php-gd

sudo service httpd restart

Step Five—Access the WordPress Installation

Wordpress online installation page is up.

Now, access the page by adding /wp-admin/install.php to site's domain or IP address (eg. example.com/wp-admin/install.php) and fill out the short online form.