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--- wordpress:install_wordpress [2016/10/18 21:49] – peter
+++ wordpress:install_wordpress [2020/07/15 09:30] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 This will allow the web server to create files and directories under this directory, which will permit us to upload content to the server.
+===== Modify Nginx Server Blocks =====
+If using Apache, just ignore this entire paragraph.
+We have our files and directories configured.  Now we need to modify our nginx configuration to serve the content correctly.
+We can use the default nginx server block as a base for our new server block.  Copy it over like this:
+<code bash>
+sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress
+</code>
+Open the new file we made so that we can make some changes:
+<code bash>
+sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress
+</code>
+We will want to make the following changes:
+<file nginx /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress>
+server {
+        listen 80 default_server;
+        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
+        root /var/www/html;
+        index index.php index.html index.htm;
+        server_name your_domain.com;
+        location / {
+                # try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
+        }
+        error_page 404 /404.html;
+        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
+        location = /50x.html {
+                root /usr/share/nginx/html;
+        }
+        location ~ \.php$ {
+                try_files $uri =404;
+                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
+                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
+                fastcgi_index index.php;
+                include fastcgi_params;
+        }
+}
+</file>
+A summary of changes that you should be making are:
+  * Change the value of the **root** directive to point to our new document root at **/var/www/html**.
+  * Modify the **index** parameter to look for an **index.php** file before the other files.
+  * Change the value of the **server_name** directive to point to your server's domain name or IP address.
+  * Adjust the **try_files** within the **location /** block to send requests to PHP when they do not exactly match.
+Some of these might already be set from your LEMP installation.  When you are finished with these changes, save and close the file.
+We need to link our new file to the **sites-enabled** directory in order to activate it.  We can do that like this:
+<code bash>
+sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
+</code>
+The file we just linked conflicts with our old default file, since it borrowed so much from it.  We need to disable the old file:
+<code bash>
+sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
+</code>
+Now, restart the web server and PHP processor to enable our changes:
+<code bash>
+sudo service nginx restart
+sudo service php5-fpm restart
+</code>
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-===== Configure Pretty Permalinks for WordPress (Optional) =====
+===== Configure Apache Pretty Permalinks for WordPress (Optional) =====
+If using NginX then either ignore this entire section or adjust accordingly.
 By default, WordPress creates URLs dynamically that look something like this:
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 <code bash>
 vi /var/www/html/.htaccess
-</bash>
+</code>
 This should give you the same functionality.
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 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04
+https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04