Download Ubuntu Minimal CD: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
Install SSH server
sudo apt install openssh-server qemu-guest-agent
Update Server
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Install Packages
sudo apt install curl mysql-server nginx php-curl php-fpm php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-mysql php-soap php-xml php-xmlrpc php-zip
Setup MySQL
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Answer Y to all
Tune MySQL for Lower Memory
sudo nano /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 20M innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size = 16M innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M key_buffer_size = 8M query_cache_size = 8M skip_name_resolve
Create Self Signed Certificate
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/example.com.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/example.com.crt
Create Nginx Config
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com
server {
listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/example.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/example.com.key;
root /var/www/example.com;
index index.php;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types text/plain text/css text/javascript image/svg+xml image/x-icon application/javascript application/x-javascript;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }
location ~* \.(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types text/css text/javascript application/javascript;
gzip_static on;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
return 404;
}
Activate New Nginx Config
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Remove Default Nginx Config
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Turn Off Server Identifcation
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf server_tokens off;
Check nginx config
sudo nginx -t
Setup Database
sudo mysql
CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci; CREATE USER 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpresspass'; GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;
Restart Services
sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm sudo systemctl reload nginx sudo systemctl restart mysql
Install WordPress
cd curl -LO https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar zxvf latest.tar.gz cp wordpress/wp-config-sample.php wordpress/wp-config.php sudo cp -a wordpress/. /var/www/example.com cd rm -fR wordpress sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com
Configure WordPress
curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
sudo nano /var/www/example.com/wp-config.php
Replace keys and salts
update db name, user, password
Add this:
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
Setup Firewall
sudo ufw default deny incoming sudo ufw default allow outgoing sudo ufw allow ssh sudo ufw allow http sudo ufw allow https sudo ufw enable sudo ufw status
Find IP Address
ip a
Go to WordPress Website
http://<ip_address>