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            <h1>Installing WordPress on Debian</h1>
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	<li>Log into the Debian device</li>
	<li>Run the following commands in a terminal:
	<div class="codeBlock"># update repositories and install any available software updates<br />
	sudo apt update<br />
	sudo apt upgrade -y<br />
	# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL<br />
	sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client curl<br />
	# install PHP components<br />
	sudo apt&nbsp;install php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip<br />
	# configure the MySQL database<br />
	sudo su<br />
	mysql_secure_installation</div>
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	<li>Press Enter to login as root</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database</li>
	<li>Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables</li>
	<li>Run the following command to login into MySQL:
	<div class="codeBlock">mysql -u root -p</div>
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	<li>Authenticate with the root password set earlier</li>
	<li>Run the following commands to create the WordPress&nbsp;database and database user
	<div class="codeBlock">CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;<br />
	GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO &#39;wordpress_user&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39; IDENTIFIED BY &#39;W0rdPr3ss!!&#39;;<br />
	FLUSH PRIVILEGES;<br />
	EXIT;<br />
	exit</div>
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	<li>Continue with the following commands to download and extract WordPress&nbsp;in the Apache webroot
	<div class="codeBlock"># download latest wordpress version<br />
	sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz<br />
	# extract latest.tar.gz<br />
	sudo mkdir /var/www/wordpress<br />
	sudo tar xzvf latest.tar.gz --directory /var/www<br />
	# create a new wordpress.conf file to configure the site<br />
	sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf</div>
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	<li>Paste the following configuration into wordpress.conf
	<p>Alias /wordpress &quot;/var/www/wordpress/&quot;<br />
	&lt;Directory /var/www/wordpress/&gt;<br />
	&nbsp; &nbsp; AllowOverride All<br />
	&lt;/Directory&gt;</p>
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	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to wordpress.conf</li>
	<li>Continue with the following commands to enable the site and restart Apache:
	<div class="codeBlock"># enable the Wordpress site and required PHP modules<br />
	sudo a2ensite wordpress<br />
	sudo a2enmod rewrite<br />
	# create a .htaccess file<br />
	sudo touch /var/www/wordpress/.htaccess<br />
	# copy the sample wordpress config<br />
	sudo cp /var/www/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php<br />
	# create an upgrade directory<br />
	sudo mkdir /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade<br />
	# set the owner of the new wordpress directory to www-data<br />
	sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress<br />
	# change additional permissions<br />
	sudo find /var/www/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;<br />
	sudo find /var/www/wordpress/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;<br />
	# generate secure secret keys, copy the output for use shortly<br />
	curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/<br />
	# edit wp-config.conf<br />
	sudo nano /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php</div>
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	<li>Press CTRL+W and search for&nbsp;define(&#39;AUTH_KEY&#39;</li>
	<li>Paste the secure secret keys generated earlier, overwriting the template</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+W and search for&nbsp;define(&#39;DB_NAME&#39;</li>
	<li>Update the database name, username and password</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+W and search for define(&#39;FS_METHOD&#39;</li>
	<li>Set the value to &#39;direct&#39;</li>
	<li>Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes to wp-config.conf</li>
	<li>Continue the setup by running the following commands in terminal
	<div class="codeBlock"># restart apache2 service<br />
	sudo systemctl restart apache2</div>
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	<li>Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/wordpress</li>
	<li>The Wordpress setup screen should be displayed</li>
	<li>Select a language &gt; Click Continue</li>
	<li>Create a site title and WordPress login &gt; Click Install WordPress</li>
	<li>When the installation completes, login with the WordPress credentials created in the previous step</li>
	<li>Welcome to your very own, self-hosted WordPress installation</li>
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