Full Guide: Setting Up WordPress on Ubuntu Server with NGINX, PHP, MySQL (For Beginners)

📄 Full Guide: Setting Up WordPress on Ubuntu Server with NGINX, PHP, MySQL (For Beginners)

✅ Overview

This beginner-friendly guide walks you step-by-step to set up a full WordPress website on an Ubuntu Server (e.g., via VirtualBox or Oracle Cloud) using:

Ubuntu Server
NGINX Web Server
PHP & PHP-FPM
MySQL
WordPress CMS

📅 Step 1: Initial Folder Setup (for Practice)

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 is just a practice area, not your live site.

📅 Step 2: Download and Extract WordPress

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

📅 Step 3: Move WordPress to NGINX Root

Clean any conflicting directories:

sudo rm -rf /var/www/mytestsite/wp-content