Install WordPress with FrankenPHP

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Check out how to install WordPress with LEMP stack

FrankenPHP #

The writeup for how to install FrankenPHP

Add the frankenphp user to the www-data group:

usermod -aG www-data frankenphp

Required packages #

apt install mariadb-server

MySQL #

Create the user and the DB:

mysql --execute="CREATE DATABASE example_com; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON example_com.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'SECURE_PASSWORD' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

To generate a random password: tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 15; echo

Files #

Create the /var/www directory:

mkdir -p /var/www

Download and extract #

Download the latest version:

wget "https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz"

Extract to /var/www/:

tar -xf "latest.tar.gz" -C "/var/www/"

Rename the wordpress directory to the used domain:

mv /var/www/wordpress /var/www/example.com

`wp-config.php` #

Create the wp-config.php:

cp "/var/www/example.com/wp-config-sample.php" "/var/www/example.com/wp-config.php"

Change the permission:

chmod 0660 "/var/www/example.com/wp-config.php"

Configure the WordPress:

nano "/var/www/example.com/wp-config.php"

Owner and group #

Change the owner and the group of the files:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com

Caddyfile #

nano /etc/frankenphp/Caddyfile

{
	frankenphp {
                php_ini "auto_prepend_file" "/var/www/example.com/wordfence-waf.php"
	}
}
example.com {

	php_server {
		root /var/www/example.com
	}

        log
        encode zstd br gzip
}

Reload FrankenPHP:

systemctl reload frankenphp