Build a Powerful WordPress Site on Fedora 31

Fedora 31 is an interesting distribution. It is not only fast, beautiful but it also powerful. We can use it for server such as web server and install WordPress CMS on top of it. So, in this article, I am going to install WordPress on Fedora 31.

Steps to Install WordPress on Fedora 31

Step 1. Install LAMP Server

First, we need to install and configure the web server, using LAMP. You can read step by step to install LAMP Server on Fedora 31. I will not discuss this step here. After your LAMP server is up and running you can continue to the step 2.

Step 2. Install WordPress

First, let’s check the WordPress requirements

sudo dnf provides wordpress

Output

[dhani@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf provides wordpress
 [sudo] password for dhani: 
 Last metadata expiration check: 1:26:23 ago on Thu 28 Nov 2019 06:50:43 PM JST.
 wordpress-5.2.3-1.fc31.noarch : Blog tool and publishing platform
 Repo        : fedora
 Matched from:
 Provide    : wordpress = 5.2.3-1.fc31
 wordpress-5.3-1.fc31.noarch : Blog tool and publishing platform
 Repo        : updates
 Matched from:
 Provide    : wordpress = 5.3-1.fc31

Now, let’s install WordPress

sudo dnf install wordpress

Answer y and press Enter

Step 2. Create a new Database for WordPress

Now we are going to create a new MariaDB database to store WordPress data.

mysql -u root -p
create database wordpress;
create user wordpress;
grant all privileges on wordpress.* to wordpress@localhost identified by '12345';
flush privileges;
exit;

The command above will create a new wordpress database and wordpress user with password 12345. Off course you will need to adjust these settings.

Step 3. Configure WordPress

Now we are going to modify some WordPress config.

sudo nano /etc/wordpress/wp-config.php

Now find and adjust the following lines with the Database credentials we created earlier.

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
 /** The name of the database for WordPress */
 define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' );
 /** MySQL database username */
 define( 'DB_USER', 'wordpress' );
 /** MySQL database password */
 define( 'DB_PASSWORD', '12345' );
 /** MySQL hostname */
 define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

Close and save the file. And then, restart the web server

sudo systemctl restart httpd

Set the SELinux

sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db=1 sudo 
setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail=1

Now edit the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf. Change the following line

Require local

Into this one

Require all granted

Next restart the webserver

sudo systemctl restart httpd

Done.

Step 4. Final Configuration

Open a web browser and type “localhost/wordpress”. Enter the information needed to complete the WordPress installation

Finally, click Install WordPress button to complete. Now enjoy the new WordPress site.