Environment Setup

Rocky Linux 8.9 is used as the depolyment environment. Install Apache, MariaDB, and PHP manually. Disable SELinux and firewalld for testing purposes:

# Set SELinux to permissive mode temporarily
setenforce 0
# Disable firewalld
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

Apache Configuration

Installation

yum install httpd -y

Virtual Host Setup

Create a dedicated user:

useradd wpuser
mkdir -p /home/wpuser/www/html
chown wpuser:wpuser -R /home/wpuser/www/html
chmod 755 -R /home/wpuser/www/html

Create /etc/httpd/conf.d/wp.conf with:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /home/wpuser/www/html
    <Directory "/home/wpuser/www/html/">
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wp_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wp_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Modify /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

User wpuser
Group wpuser

Enable and start the service:

systemctl enable httpd --now

MariaDB Configuraton

Repository Setup

Create /etc/yum.repos.d/mariadb.repo:

[mariadb]
name = MariaDB
baseurl = https://mirrors.aliyun.com/mariadb/yum/10.6/rhel/$releasever/$basearch
gpgkey = https://mirrors.aliyun.com/mariadb/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB
gpgcheck = 1
module_hotfixes = 1

Installation

yum makecache
yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client -y

Database Initializasion

Start and enable MariaDB:

systemctl enable mariadb --now

Set root password:

mysql -u root
ALTER USER root@localhost IDENTIFIED VIA mysql_native_password USING PASSWORD('your_db_root_pass');

Create WordPress database and user:

CREATE DATABASE wpdb;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wpdb.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_db_user_pass';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

PHP Installation

Repository Configuration

yum install epel-release -y
rpm -ivh https://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.9.rpm

Install PHP 8.3

yum install php83-php php83-php-mysqlnd php83-php-pecl-zip php83-php-gd php83-php-intl -y

Modify /etc/opt/remi/php83/php-fpm.d/www.conf:

user = wpuser
group = wpuser
listen.acl_users = wpuser

Enable and start PHP-FPM:

systemctl enable php83-php-fpm --now

Verify PHP execution by creating /home/wpuser/www/html/phpinfo.php:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

WordPress Deployment

Download and Extract

wget https://cn.wordpress.org/latest-zh_CN.zip -P /home/wpuser/www/html
unzip latest-zh_CN.zip -d /home/wpuser/www/html
mv /home/wpuser/www/html/wordpress/* /home/wpuser/www/html/

Configuration

Create wp-config.php:

cd /home/wpuser/www/html
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Edit wp-config.php with database credentials:

define( 'DB_NAME', 'wpdb' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'wpuser' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'your_db_user_pass' );
define( 'DB_HOST', 'localhost' );

Generate and replace security keys at WordPress Salt Generator.

Initialization

Access http://your_server_ip/ in a web browser to complete installation.