Install Nginx and PHP-FPM

sudo apt install nginx 
sudo ufw app info "Nginx Full"
sudo ufw allow in "Nginx Full"


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PHP 7.2 FPM

sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql php-dom php-simplexml php-ssh2 php-xml php-xmlreader php-curl php-exif php-ftp php-gd php-iconv php-imagick php-json php-mbstring php-posix php-sockets php-tokenizer  php7.2-cli

sudo systemctl reload php7.2-fpm

sudo nano /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
; http://php.net/upload-max-filesize
upload_max_filesize = 256M
post_max_size = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 256M
memory_limit = 256M
max_execution_time = 360
date.timezone = Asia/Kolkata
# Restrict FPM to Localhost
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On



sudo systemctl status php7.2-fpm.service
sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm
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Install WordPress

cd /tmp
curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
### touch /tmp/wordpress/.htaccess
cp /tmp/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /tmp/wordpress/wp-config.php
mkdir /tmp/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade

sudo cp -a /tmp/wordpress/. /var/www/html/wordpress
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress

curl -s https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/
sudo nano /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-config.php

# EDIT DATABASE DETAILS
# Add the SALTs received above

$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');
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Configure NGINX

sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

server {
    listen         80;
    listen         [::]:80;
    server_name    example.com;
    root           /var/www/html/wordpress;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/wordpress.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/wordpress.error.log;

    client_max_body_size 256M;
    autoindex off;

   ## https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/nginx/default-single-site.txt
    ## redirect index.php requests ##
    if ($request_uri ~* "^(.*/)index\.php$") {
        return 301 $1;
    }

    #Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
    rewrite /faq/wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

    location / {
       # Pretty permalinks
       # try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
       try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

# https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-configure-nginx-for-wordpress-permalinks/
# Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server.
    index index.php;
    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
        if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
                return 404;
    }
# This is a robust solution for path info security issue and works with "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1" in /etc/php.ini (default)
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_pass php;
 }
}


  #enable gzip compression
  gzip on;
  gzip_vary on;
  gzip_min_length 1000;
  gzip_comp_level 5;
  gzip_types application/json text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript image/svg+xml;
  gzip_proxied any;


    location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
    location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }

  # disable access to hidden files
  location ~ /\.ht {
      access_log off;
      log_not_found off;
      deny all;
  }

# https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/nginx/default-single-site.txt

####################################################################################################
#### Server Block: Favicon Settings ################################################################
####################################################################################################

    location = /favicon.ico {
        ## 204 error better than 404 error if not found ##
        try_files $uri =204;
    }
 
####################################################################################################
#### Server Block: Static Resource Settings (Expiration Headers) ###################################
####################################################################################################

    ## CloudFlare (or CDNs) overwrite these headers ##
    location ~* \.(atom|bmp|bz2|css|doc|docx|eot|gif|gz|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|mid|midi|mp4|ogg|ogv|otf|png|ppt|rar|rss|rtf|svg|svgz|tar|tgz|ttf|wav|woff|xls|zip)$ {
        expires max;
    }

####################################################################################################
#### Server Block: Browser Resource (Render) Settings ##############################################
####################################################################################################

    location ~ \.(eot|ttf|ttc|otf|woff|woff2|svg|css|js)$ {
        ## avoid render security errors in certain browsers e.g. Firefox/IE ##
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
	expires max;
    }

   
####################################################################################################
#### Server Block: Deny Access To Various (Unsafe + Unused) WordPress Core Files ###################
####################################################################################################

    ## WP directories ##
    location ~* /(?:wp-includes|wp-content|mu-plugins|uploads)/.*\.php$ {
        deny all;
    }
    
    ## WP meta files ##
    location ~* (license|licence|readme)\.(htm|html|txt) {
	deny all;
    }
    
    ## wp-config ##
    location = /wp-config*.php {
	deny all;
    }
    
    ## XML-RPC ##
    location = /xmlrpc.php {
	deny all;
    }
    
    ## wp-mail ##
    location = /wp-mail.php {
	deny all;
    }
    
    ## wp-links-opml ##
    location = /wp-links-opml.php {
	deny all;
    }
    
    ## wp-trackback ##
    location = /wp-trackback.php {
	deny all;
    }
    
    ## WP debug logs ##
    location ~ /wp-content/debug\.log {
	deny all;
    }

####################################################################################################
#### Server Block: WP-Login Settings (Rate Limiting) ###############################################
####################################################################################################

    location = /wp-login.php {
        ## limit access to one request per second per IP address
        limit_req zone=one burst=1 nodelay;
        ## we must re-include this routing for php-fpm ##
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        ## fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock
	## fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
	fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
	fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_cache WORDPRESS;
        fastcgi_cache_valid 200 301 404 @CACHEVALID;
        fastcgi_cache_bypass $skip_cache;
        fastcgi_no_cache $skip_cache;
    }


}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wordpress
sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx
sudo systemctl status nginx
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Complete WordPress Installation

http://server_domain_or_IPCode language: JavaScript (javascript)