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🚀 Set Up WordPress on Ubuntu Server (Before NGINX Configuration)

A full beginner guide for Theekshana

✅ Overview:

This guide walks you through everything before NGINX configuration, including:

• Preparing the folder structure
• Installing WordPress
• Fixing permissions
• Getting ready for web server access

🧱 Step 1: Create Your Project Structure

mkdir -p ~/projects/web/html
cd ~/projects/web/html

touch index.html styles.css script.js database.sql backend.php
touch "Complete project Description.md"

This gives you a clean local dev folder

📦 Step 2: Download & Extract WordPress

cd /tmp
curl -O <https://wordpress.org/latest.zip>
sudo apt install unzip
unzip latest.zip