After a whole day working on my site, I finally got it runs.<\/p>\n
Here’s some instructions on how you install LAMP and Wordpress on your VPS and enabling SSL for your site. And, of course, many problems I’ve faced and the solutions.<\/p>\n
I’m using Digital Ocean ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb host, and the path and configuration may vary. I would suggest using root user since many of the following commands require sudo permission.<\/p>\n
Update apt and then install Apache.<\/p>\n
apt-get update\napt-get install apache2\n<\/code><\/pre>\nThe Apache configuration file is located at \/etc\/apache2. And now we can modify the configuration of our site.<\/p>\n
nano \/etc\/apache2\/sites-available\/000-default.conf\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n- Set ServerName to your hostname or ip address.<\/li>\n
- Set ServerAdmin to your email address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<VirtualHost *:80>\n ServerName yourhostname\n ServerAdmin youremailaddress\n DocumentRoot \/var\/www\/html\n <Directory \/var\/www\/html\/>\n AllowOverride All\n <\/Directory>\n<\/code><\/pre>\nBefore restart apache you may check the syntax of your configuration file.<\/p>\n
apache2ctl configtest\n<\/code><\/pre>\nIf nothing wrong you should see\nSyntax OK<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/span>Trouble shooting<\/span><\/h3>\n\nYou might see the following message.\n\nAH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message\nSyntax OK\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nIt’s OK if you just ignore this but in case you’re an OCD like me, you can run the following command.\n\necho "ServerName localhost" | sudo tee \/etc\/apache2\/conf-available\/fqdn.conf\nsudo a2enconf fqdn\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\nHere DON’T replace ServerName with your server name.\n<\/details>\nStart rewrite and proxy_fcgi module and restart apache.<\/p>\n
a2enmod rewrite proxy_fcgi\nservice apache2 restart\n<\/code><\/pre>\nAdd access permission to www-data user.<\/p>\n
chown -R www-data \/var\/www\/html\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\/var\/www\/html<\/strong> is where you gonna put you website files in.<\/p>\n<\/span>Install MySQL<\/span><\/h2>\nWe use mariadb, an open-source fork of MySQL.<\/p>\n
apt-get install mariadb-server\n<\/code><\/pre>\nLog in with MySQL root user.<\/p>\n
sudo mysql -u root -p\n<\/code><\/pre>\nBy default, there’s no password for MySQL root user and you definitely wanna change it.<\/p>\n
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpasswd';\n<\/code><\/pre>\nDon’t forget the “;” at the end of every SQL command.<\/p>\n
Exit MySQl.<\/p>\n
EXIT;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/span>Install PHP<\/span><\/h2>\nInstall php and needed packages.<\/p>\n
apt install php-fpm php-mysql php-gd php-curl php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-zip\n<\/code><\/pre>\nEditing the dir.conf.<\/p>\n
nano \/etc\/apache2\/mods-enabled\/dir.conf\n<\/code><\/pre>\nMove “index.php” to the front so Apache will search for index.php first instead of inex.html.<\/p>\n
<IfModule mod_dir.c>\n DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm\n<\/IfModule>\n<\/code><\/pre>\nNow we can restart Apache.<\/p>\n
service apache2 restart\n<\/code><\/pre>\n