Ubuntu in Virtualbox

Download and install Virtualbox

Download Ubuntu ISO

Setup Virtualbox using Ubuntu ISO

Login to Ubuntu

Open up terminal

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install lamp-server^

create MYSQL admin user and password

sudo systemctl start apache2

sudo systemctl enable apache2

sudo apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-mysql libapache2-mod-php7.1 php-common php7.1-cli php7.1-cgi php7.1-json php7.1-opcache php7.1-readline php7.1-common php7.1-gd

sudo a2enmod php7.1

sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo nano /var/www/html/info.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

open localhost

sudo rm /var/www/html/info.php

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE “wordpressdb”;
CREATE USER “wordpressuser”@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON “wordpressdb”.* TO ‘wordpressuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

cd~

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

tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

sudo mv ~/wordpress/var/www/html/

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data/var/www/html/

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/

cd ~/wordpress

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

sudo nano wp-config.php
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpressdb’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpressuser’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

sudo systemctl restart mysql.service

open web browser: localhost/wordpress

add from server plugin

 

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