Install WordPress and Apache on Raspberry Pi

Installing WordPress in RaspberryPi using Apache server

What you need:

• Raspberry Pi Noobs installed and updated
• Access through Putty

Install LAMP

Once you are logged in using Putty, you can copy paste the codes from this page. You can paste it by simply right clicking your mouse inside Putty.
Lets start installing Apache first, copy the code below and paste it to your Putty:

sudo apt-get install apache2

Next is MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql -y

Finally, install Php

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 -y

Check Apache if it works. Go to you browser and enter the address of your server, in this tutorial its 192.168.2.101

Check your Php if it works, paste this code in your Putty:

php -r 'echo "\n\nYour PHP is working.\n\n\n";'

Configuring SQL

We will create an SQL database that will be used by the wordpress.
Paste this code, this will ask your SQL root password

mysql -u root -p

Create database named: Raspi

CREATE DATABASE Raspi;

Add user named: pi

CREATE USER [email protected];

Password is Password1

SET PASSWORD FOR [email protected]= PASSWORD("Password1");

Lastly grant user privilege

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON Raspi.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY 'Password1';

Finish it with the following code:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Installing WordPress

Ensure you are in user root directory

cd

Download the latest WordPress

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

Unzip the file

tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

Make a copy of wp-config.php

cd wordpress
sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Create directory where we will save the wordpress files

sudo mkdir /var/www/raspi

Copy the wordpress files

sudo rsync -avP * /var/www/raspi/

Give the server user access to folder

sudo chown www-data:www-data * -R
sudo usermod -a -G www-data pi

Configuring WordPress

cd /var/www/raspi

Open WordPress configuration file

sudo nano wp-config.php

Now change the DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD according to the details below:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'Raspi');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'pi');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'Password1');

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

check the files on the folder

ls

Some apache version has different filename. If you see default.conf that is the one we need to copy. But in my case it shows 000-default.conf
Lets copy the file and save it as raspi.conf

sudo cp 000-default.conf raspi.conf

Edit raspi.conf

sudo nano raspi.conf

Paste this code:

	ServerAdmin [email protected]
	ServerName 192.168.2.101
	ServerAlias www.raspi.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/raspi
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/raspi>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

activate site

sudo a2ensite raspi.conf

reload apache

sudo service apache2 reload