ubuntuWordPress

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🚀 Step 1: Create the E2 VM Instance

In Google Cloud Console:

Go to Compute Engine → VM instances
Click Create Instance
Configure:
Name: wordpress-e2
Region/Zone: closest to users
Machine type:
→ E2-medium (recommended minimum for WP)
Boot disk:
OS: Ubuntu 25.10
Size: ≥ 20 GB (SSD preferred)
Firewall:
✅ Allow HTTP
✅ Allow HTTPS
Click Create

🔐 Step 2: Connect via SSH
gcloud compute ssh wordpress-e2

Or use the browser SSH button.

📦 Step 3: Update System
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

🌐 Step 4: Install Apache
sudo apt install apache2 -y

Enable + start:

sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl start apache2

Test:

http://YOUR_EXTERNAL_IP

🗄️ Step 5: Install MySQL
sudo apt install mysql-server -y

Secure it:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Recommended:

Remove anonymous users → Yes
Disallow root login remotely → Yes
Remove test DB → Yes

🧩 Step 6: Install PHP (WordPress-compatible)
sudo apt install php php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip libapache2-mod-php -y

Restart Apache:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

🧮 Step 7: Create WordPress Database
sudo mysql

Inside MySQL:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

CREATE USER ‘wpuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘StrongPassword123!’;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO ‘wpuser’@’localhost’;

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

📥 Step 8: Download WordPress
cd /tmp
curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvf latest.tar.gz

Move to web root:

sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html/

🔑 Step 9: Configure Permissions
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress

⚙️ Step 10: Configure Apache Virtual Host

Create config:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

Paste:

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DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress

<Directory /var/www/html/wordpress>
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Enable site + rewrite:

sudo a2ensite wordpress.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo systemctl reload apache2

🧾 Step 11: Configure wp-config.php
cd /var/www/html/wordpress
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
nano wp-config.php

Update:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wpuser’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘StrongPassword123!’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

Add salts from:
👉 https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

🌍 Step 12: Access WordPress Installer

Open browser:

http://YOUR_EXTERNAL_IP

Follow:

Site name
Admin user
Password
Email