How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

What is WordPress ?

WordPress : is an open-source content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to create and manage a website. It is the most popular CMS in the world.

Prerequisit

root access to your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS server
LAMP Stack installed and running

Installing Apache2 on your server

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install apache2

Once Apache2 is installed, start the service and configure it to start automatically at boot:

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo systemctl start apache2
radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo systemctl enable apache2

Install PHP

PHP 8.5 is the default version of PHP that would be installed on Ubuntu 26.04.

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo apt install php php-mysql php-mbstring php-gd php-xml php-curl php-zip -y

then restart apache2 service

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Check the PHP version :

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ php --version

Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04

MariaDB is an open-source relational database that will be used to store WordPress data. to iInstall it , run the below command:

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client -y

Once the installation is complete, check the status of MariaDB by running :

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo systemctl status mariadb

Use the following command to enable MariaDB to start automatically at boot time :

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo systemctl enable mariadb

Securing MariaDB

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo mariadb-secure-installation

Set Root Password: No
Remove Anonymous Users: Yes
Disallow Remote Root Login: Yes
Remove Test Database: Yes
Reload Privilege Tables: Yes

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;

CREATE USER 'wordpress_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Linux@3456';

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress_db.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'localhost';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

Downloading and Configuring WordPress

radouane@linuxtechguide:~$ cd /tmp
radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Unzip the archive

radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp$ tar -xf latest.tar.gz

Move WordPress to the /var/www/html

radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp$ cd wordpress/
radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp/wordpress$ sudo mv * /var/www/html/
radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp/wordpress$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html -R

restart apache2 service

radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp/wordpress$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Remove the Default Apache index.html Page

radouane@linuxtechguide:/tmp/wordpress$ cd /var/www/html/
radouane@linuxtechguide:/var/www/html$ sudo rm -fr index.html

Then, enter your IP address or domain name in your web browser.

Click Let’s Submit

then :

Complete the installation

Open a web browser and access your server using its IP address or domain name like : http://your_domain.com