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How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04 with Nginx and HHVM

In this article, you will get some information on the installation of WordPress on Ubuntu 16.04 with Nginx and HHVM on an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS).

HHVM also known as HipHop Virtual Machine is an open source virtual machine developed by Facebook that can be used for executing programs written in Hack and PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time compilation approach for performance reasons. HHVM is faster than the traditional PHP engine from ZEND, and is used by Facebook to serve billions of web requests per day.

Prerequisites

  1. A fresh Alibaba cloud instance with Ubuntu 16.04 server installed.
  2. A static IP address 192.168.0.103 is configured on the instance.
  3. A root password is setup on the server.

Then you can click here to see the steps to install Nginx and MariaDB, configure MariaDB, install and configure HHVM. After you have successfully installed and configured these packages, you can continue to install WordPress.

Install WordPress

First, you will need to download the latest version of the WordPress from their official website. You can do this with the following command:

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip

Once the download is completed, unzip the downloaded file with the following command:

unzip latest.zip

Next. copy the extracted directory to the Nginx web root directory using the following command:

cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html/

Next, change the directory to the /var/www/html/ and copy wordpress sample config file:

cd /var/www/html/
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Next, open wp-config.php file and add database credentials which you have created earlier:

nano wp-config.php

Make the following changes:

/* The name of the database for WordPress /
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpressdb');
/* MySQL database username /
define('DB_USER', 'wordpress');
/* MySQL database password /
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
/* MySQL hostname /
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Save and close the file, then give proper permissions to WordPress:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/

Finally, restart the Nginx and HHVM services.

systemctl restart nginx
systemctl restart hhvm

Then you can access your WordPress Web Installation Wizard, and you can see the details here.

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