This is guide, howto install WordPress 4.1.1 with Nginx or Apache on Fedora 21/20/19, CentOS 7/6.6/5.11 and Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.6/5.11 servers. WordPress needs web server with PHP and MariaDB or MySQL database. This guide uses Apache web server with PHP 5.6 or Nginx web server with PHP 5.6 (PHP-FPM) and MariaDB 10/5.5 database server or Mysql 5.6 database server.

If you want to install WordPress with Apache then use a – [Apache] sections and if you want install WordPress with Nginx then use b – [Nginx] sections.

1. Install Needed Web and Database Servers⌗

[Apache]

1.1a Install the whole LAMP environment with following guide⌗

LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) on Fedora, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)

[Nginx]

1.1b Install the whole LEMP environment with following guide⌗

LEMP (Linux/Nginx/MySQL/PHP) on Fedora, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)

OR

[Apache]

1.2a Install just MariaDB or MySQL and Apache with PHP using following guides⌗

  1. Install MariaDB 10/5.5 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
  2. Install MySQL 5.6 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
  3. Install Apache (httpd) and PHP 5.6 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

[Nginx]

1.2b Install just MariaDB or MySQL and Nginx with PHP (PHP-FPM) using following guides⌗

  1. Install MariaDB 10/5.5 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
  2. Install MySQL 5.6 on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)
  3. Install Nginx and PHP 5.6 (PHP-FPM) on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL)

2. Install WordPress 4.1.1 on Fedora 21/20/19, CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.6/5.11⌗

2.1 Change root user⌗ 

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2.2 Download WordPress 4.1.1 / latest⌗ 

cd /tmp
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

[Apache]

2.3a Untar/Extract Downloaded WordPress Package⌗ 

tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html

[Nginx]

2.3b Create needed directories, set permissions and untar/Extract Downloaded WordPress Package⌗ 

mkdir -p /srv/www/wordpress/public_html
mkdir /srv/www/wordpress/logs

tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /srv/www/wordpress/public_html --strip-components=1

chown -R apache:apache /srv/www/wordpress

Note: I use apache user and group here, because PHP-FPM runs as apache default (apache Choosed to be able to access some dir as httpd). If you use some other user on your php-fpm conf then change this accordingly.

3. Create MariaDB/MySQL Database for WordPress⌗

3.1 Connect MariaDB/MySQL Database as root⌗ 

## localhost ##
mysql -h localhost -u root -p

## Remote server ##
mysql -h 10.0.0.15 -u username -p

3.2 Setup MariaDB/MySQL Database for WordPress⌗ 

## Create new user ##
CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "some_good_password_for_wordpress";

## Create new database ##
CREATE DATABASE wordpress_blog;

## Grant needed permissions ##
GRANT ALL ON wordpress_blog.* TO wordpress@localhost;

## Flush privileges ##
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

## Exit ##
exit

4. Setup WordPress⌗

[Apache]

4.1a Create Apache VirtualHost for WordPress⌗

This is simple VirtualHost setup for local usage. VirtualHost is not mandatory for WordPress installation.
Add following to /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf file:

<virtualhost>
  ServerAdmin test@test
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
  ServerName wordpress

  # Logging
  ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress-error-log
  CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wordpress-acces-log common
</virtualhost>

Restart Apache (httpd)

## Fedora 21/20/19 and CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
systemctl stop httpd.service
 
## CentOS/RHEL 6.6/5.11 ##
service httpd stop
## OR ##
/etc/init.d/httpd stop

[Nginx]

4.1b Create Nginx VirtualHost for WordPress⌗

Create sites-available and sites-enabled directories

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Include sites-enabled
Add following lines to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file, after “include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf” line (inside http block).

## Load virtual host conf files. ##
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Create Nginx wordpress virtual host file
Add following content to /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress file. This is basic Nginx virtual host config file for wordpress.

server {
    server_name wordpress;
    access_log /srv/www/wordpress/logs/access.log;
    error_log /srv/www/wordpress/logs/error.log;
    root /srv/www/wordpress/public_html;
 
    location / {
        index index.php;
    }
 
    # Disable favicon.ico logging
    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    # Allow robots and disable logging
    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    # Enable permalink structures
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite . /index.php last;
    }

    # Handle php requests
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    # Disable static content logging and set cache time to max
    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
    }

    # Deny access to htaccess and htpasswd files
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}

Create symlink on sites enabled directory

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

Restart Nginx server

## Fedora 21/20/19 and CentOS/RHEL 7 ##
systemctl stop nginx.service
 
## CentOS/RHEL 6.6/5.11 ##
service nginx stop
## OR ##
/etc/init.d/nginx stop

4.2 Set wordpress pointing to localhost (or some other host)⌗

Add following to /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1  wordpress

[Apache]

4.3a Create wp-config.php⌗ 

cd /var/www/html/wordpress
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

[Nginx]

4.3b Create wp-config.php⌗ 

cd /srv/www/wordpress/public_html
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

4.4 Configure WordPress wp-config.php file⌗

Open wp-config.php with text editor.

Setup at following database settings (which was created in section 3.2)⌗ 

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Insert some unique data on following section⌗ 

define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT',	   'put your unique phrase here');

Generate unique phrases using pwgen
Install pwgen:

yum install pwgen

Generate phreses with pwgen:

pwgen -sy 50

Output:

l_fO1Q6\P>yYfsWZ9BY7_jj;U2k&,'5do!;rR5L!~M]y_{]~me
lOVt"rJk.rqZRUXA)VNZHs@]A1W1Zzdcb?+4y5D4'5zCYy>5lI
m8)ab[9]JO$S_;\+u0Q>e~@:VZ|N!R{u#3\NZavWZv.caQ_?GU
bu}g.6=j,6/at-lm1u2S_K>3ckX=EeI~i$?0p]zD|pO((a{b1]
#-otVokEQz9+&M0hokkKL]l*BK|c5w}bFmUZ:|=v'B:"_u^LV7
z{N*`:~6IzgL%p;#j_:8)nReK|*Cdr%#e)"F-v_VKWahLi%p\t
C+to$qo~PTq8=BD0{jv?dJyiY(L;'2sW`CnW!4*#y>|#Xpa4TF
%BCO]d}[ag5ivSZz+[ER]sr@W}`*J6](jFtQ]h>,D<ma ai-4.lx7q="">FKN?#?HXLJXB(i
~dMJ[e"S}c4R>7^Q)vG{Uq-):e}4I+]zsM@h#sz*7{Bnk}oa(y
...

Then simply use these generated phrases on WordPress config file. Remember remove or replace all quotation marks.

Check/Setup following parameters if needed:⌗ 

// WordPress Database Table prefix
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

// WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English
define ('WPLANG', '');

// For developers: WordPress debugging mode
define('wp_DEBUG', false);

Save wp-config.php file!

This guide example wp-config.php could look following⌗ 

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress_blog');
define('DB_USER', 'wordpress');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'some_good_password_for_wordpress');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
define('AUTH_KEY',         'l_fO1Q6\P>yYfsWZ9BY7_jj;U2k&,"5do!;rR5L!~M]y_{]~me');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'lOVt"rJk.rqZRUXA)VNZHs@]A1W1Zzdcb?+4y5D4"5zCYy>5lI');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'm8)ab[9]JO$S_;\+u0Q>e~@:VZ|N!R{u#3\NZavWZv.caQ_?GU');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'bu}g.6=j,6/at-lm1u2S_K>3ckX=EeI~i$?0p]zD|pO((a{b1]');
define('AUTH_SALT',        '#-otVokEQz9+&M0hokkKL]l*BK|c5w}bFmUZ:|=v"B:"_u^LV7');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'z{N*`:~6IzgL%p;#j_:8)nReK|*Cdr%#e)"F-v_VKWahLi%p\t');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   '%BCO]d}[ag5ivSZz+[ER]sr@W}`*J6](jFtQ]h>,D<ma define="">7^Q)vG{Uq-):e}4I+]zsM@h#sz*7{Bnk}oa(y');
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';
define ('WPLANG', '');
define('wp_DEBUG', false);

4.5 Finnish WordPress Configuration with Browser⌗

Open browser and Goto following address http://wordpress/.

Setup Basic WordPress Blog Data and Create Admin User⌗

WordPress 4.0 Setup Basic WordPress Blog Data and Create Admin User

WordPress Installation Completed⌗

WordPress 4.0 Installation Success

5. Use WordPress⌗

5.1 WordPress Log In⌗

WordPress 4.0 Login

5.2 WordPress 4.1.1 Welcome Screen and Dashboard⌗

WordPress 4.1.1 on Fedora 21

5.3 WordPress 4.1.1 Blog with Twenty Fifteen Template⌗

WordPress 4.1.1 Twenty Fifteen Theme