WordPress Setup Using Raspberry Pi 3 And PHP

Introduction

This article demonstrates how to make a WordPress Setup Using Raspberry Pi 3 and PHP.

Pi can handle a web server; so if you want to launch your own WordPress blogs with a proper back-end, you can easily do it. This web server is used to get a small amount of traffic and for development purposes.

Requirement

I used the following equipment for this Raspberry Pi web server article.

Raspberry Pi 3
Minimum 8GB SD Cord if you're using Raspberry Pi 3
Ethernet or Wifi
Putty
VNC Viewer

Optional

USB Keyboard
USB Mouse

Installation

In this article, I have made use of the standard operating system for the Raspberry Pi, known as Raspbian. If you haven't got this installed, then you can follow my previews article "Traffic Light System Using Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspbian Installation Process and LightWeight Web Server" link. First, you need to go and read my previous articles and then follow my instruction.

First, we will need to install an Apache2 web server. Just use the following commands.

sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

If you don't know the IP address, you can enter the following command line.

hostname -I

Open Browser, Enter IP address in the browser, and you should get an Apache instruction page.

Next, we need to install MYSQL - SERVER PHP 7.0. Just use the following commands.

sudo apt-get install MySQL-server php7.0-mysql -y
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Next, go to Configure MySQL server and now configure the password.

We will need to download and extract the WordPress package.
1. cd /var/www/html
2. sudo chown pi: .
3. rm *
4. wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
5. tar xzf latest.tar.gz
6. mv wordpress/* ./
7. rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz
8. rm -rf index.html
9. sudo chown -R -f www-data:www-data /var/www/html
Restart Apache otherwise you will get an error that PHP is missing the MYSQL module.
Now that that's installed we will need to set up a database to connect, use the -u for the username, and -p flag for the password. Leave no space b/w the flag and required text.