After doing mysql thing, Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php from your wordpress folder and using your favorite text editor you will need to add the name of your database, mysql username and password to the config file. Mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO IDENTIFIED BY “foopassword” ĭon't forget to do necessary changes such as username and database name change according to your desire. Then using the sudo command set the permissions so you will be able to modify the files and allow the web server to access them as well like this: sudo chown -R www-data *Īfter all of this, It's time to create database in mysql, i will show a short way to do it ) mysql -u root -p Now, lets get started with WordPress installation.

Try to check/verify from browser by typing localhost as a URL.

Install Apache sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5Īfter installing mysql and apache you should get localhost up and running. Here is a breakdown for you, install mysql sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql First, navigate to wherever you installed XAMPP. Your first job is to create a folder within XAMPP to hold your WordPress site. So for this we should add the XAMPP php to environment variables. There are lots of ways to install WordPress, but when you use XAMPP, the best approach is to do so yourself.

The reason for the above problem is, as PHP is installed as a bundle along with XAMPP, the OS doesnt know it is there. A very good guide can be found from mentioned urls at the bottom. XAMPP has php-cli already installed so there is no need to install php-cli via apt-get.

Install wordpress on xampp ubuntu