Wordpress installation script for Ubuntu

Wordpress installation script for Ubuntu (Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 but should work on other versions also).

Script made to automate process of Wordpress installation on Ubuntu. Copy and past 3 lines and Wordpress will be up and running

How it works?

WHen the script is executed it is going to install all necessary dependencies, MySql, Apache and Wordpress itself.

Basic configuration of Apache will be installed on /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf and Wordpress config file in /srv/www/wordpress/wp-config.php

At the end of installation summary will be displaying.

How to use the script?

Step 1 - download the script

sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cierek/Wordpress/main/wordpress_install.sh

Step 2 - modify the script

This is not necesary if you are creating a test wordpress to play on your local machine. However, it is highly recommended to change the default password.

Step 3 - make script executable

sudo chmod +x wordpress_install.sh

Step 4 - execute the script

sudo ./wordpress_install.sh

Worth to read

https://wordpress.org/ - Wordpress official Page

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-wordpress#1-overview - Wordpress installation process by Canonical

https://github.com/Yenthe666/InstallScript - Yenthe's installation script for Odoo ERP (when Wordpress is not enough). Script in here was actually inspired by Yenthe's work which helped thousands of people worlwide to install Odoo