How to install Wordpress on opensuse15.1

Installation of WordPress On OpenSuse 15.1

Introducion:

Wordpress is the most powerful and popular content management system (CMS) application. It is a PHP based application and using MySQL database. Wordpress that allows you to create and publish your content on the web.This video explains the method to Install Wordpress on opensuse15.1

Process

Install the Required PHP modules for wordpress

LinuxHelp:~ # zypper install php-gd  php-pdo  php-mysql  php-mbstring  php-simplexml  php-curl apache2-mod_php7
Retrieving repository 'Main Update Repository' metadata ..................................................[done]
Building repository 'Main Update Repository' cache .......................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Overall download size: 2.1 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 1.9 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
Retrieving package apache2-mod_php7-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64              (1/4),   1.5 MiB (  9.2 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: apache2-mod_php7-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64.rpm .................................[done (412.9 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package php7-curl-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64                     (2/4),  51.2 KiB ( 91.2 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: php7-curl-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64.rpm ..........................................[done (2.4 KiB/s)]
Retrieving package php7-gd-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64                       (3/4),  51.7 KiB (115.7 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: php7-gd-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64.rpm ........................................................[done]
Retrieving package php7-mbstring-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64                 (4/4), 522.7 KiB (  1.7 MiB unpacked)
Retrieving: php7-mbstring-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64.rpm ....................................[done (286.8 KiB/s)]
Checking for file conflicts: .............................................................................[done]
(1/4) Installing: apache2-mod_php7-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64 .............................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
Requesting apache restart ( instance)


(2/4) Installing: php7-curl-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64 ....................................................[done]
(3/4) Installing: php7-gd-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64 ......................................................[done]
(4/4) Installing: php7-mbstring-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64 ................................................[done]
Executing %posttrans script 'apache2-mod_php7-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64.rpm' --------------------------------[\]
Output of apache2-mod_php7-7.2.5-lp151.6.13.1.x86_64.rpm %posttrans script:
    Restarting apache ( instance)

Executing %posttrans scripts .............................................................................[done]

Login into the mysql to create user and database for wordpress

LinuxHelp:~ # mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 16
Server version: 10.2.25-MariaDB SUSE package

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]> create database wordpress character set utf8mb4;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)


MariaDB [(none)]> create user user1@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)


MariaDB [(none)]> grant all on wordpress.* to user1@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)


MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> exit
Bye

Download the Wordpress under specific directory

LinuxHelp:~ # cd /mnt
LinuxHelp:/mnt # wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
--2019-11-07 02:38:20--  https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Resolving wordpress.org (wordpress.org)... 198.143.164.252
Connecting to wordpress.org (wordpress.org)|198.143.164.252|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11199173 (11M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘latest.tar.gz’

latest.tar.gz               100%[===========================================>]  10.68M  1.05MB/s    in 36s     

2019-11-07 02:38:57 (302 KB/s) - ‘latest.tar.gz’ saved [11199173/11199173]

Extract the Downloaded file

LinuxHelp:/mnt # tar xvf latest.tar.gz
wordpress/
wordpress/xmlrpc.php
wordpress/wp-blog-header.php
wordpress/readme.html
wordpress/wp-signup.php
wordpress/index.php
….
…..

Move the extracted wordpress under htdocs directory

LinuxHelp:/mnt # mv wordpress /srv/www/htdocs/

Change directory to wordpress

LinuxHelp:/mnt # cd /srv/www/htdocs/wordpress/

Rename the file name into wp-config.php

LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Update the Mysql credentials in wp-config.php file

LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # vim wp-config.php

Use the below commands to Change ownership and permission of the wordpress directory

LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # chown -R wwwrun:www /srv/www/htdocs/
LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # chmod 775 -R /srv/www/htdocs/

Long listing the current directory

LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # ll
total 180
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www   420 Dec  1  2017 index.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www 19935 Jan  2  2019 license.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  7447 Apr  9  2019 readme.html
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  6919 Jan 12  2019 wp-activate.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  2438 Oct 15 02:07 wp-admin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www   369 Dec  1  2017 wp-blog-header.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  2283 Jan 21  2019 wp-comments-post.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  2877 Nov  7 02:45 wp-config.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www    44 Oct 15 02:07 wp-content
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  3847 Jan  9  2019 wp-cron.php
drwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  7450 Oct 15 02:07 wp-includes
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  2502 Jan 16  2019 wp-links-opml.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  3306 Dec  1  2017 wp-load.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www 39551 Jun 10 19:04 wp-login.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  8403 Dec  1  2017 wp-mail.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www 18962 Mar 29  2019 wp-settings.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www 31085 Jan 16  2019 wp-signup.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  4764 Dec  1  2017 wp-trackback.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 wwwrun www  3068 Aug 17  2018 xmlrpc.php

Configure the virtual host for Wordpress

LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # vim /etc/apache2/conf.d/wordpress.conf
<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
documentroot "/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress/"
<directory "/srv/www/htdocs/">
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</directory>
</virtualhost>

Restart the Apache service to update the changes

LinuxHelp:/srv/www/htdocs/wordpress # systemctl restart apache2

Select language and Click on continue to begin installation

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Login Wordpress with the user credential

With this, Installation of Wordpress on Opensuse15.1 comes to end