How to install Wordpress CMS V4.9.6 on Fedora-28

Installation

Download WordPress cms package using wget command

[root@linuxhelp ~]# wget https://en-ca.wordpress.org/wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip
--2018-05-31 01:05:58--  https://en-ca.wordpress.org/wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip
Resolving en-ca.wordpress.org (en-ca.wordpress.org)... 198.143.164.252
Connecting to en-ca.wordpress.org (en-ca.wordpress.org)|198.143.164.252|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9925768 (9.5M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip’ 

wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.z 100%[============================> ]   9.47M   935KB/s    in 11s     

2018-05-31 01:06:11 (897 KB/s) - ‘ wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip’  saved [9925768/9925768]

Extract the package from the downloaded directory.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# unzip wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip 
Archive:  wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip
   creating: wordpress/
  inflating: wordpress/wp-login.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-cron.php   
  inflating: wordpress/xmlrpc.php    
  inflating: wordpress/wp-load.php   
   creating: wordpress/wp-admin/
  inflating: wordpress/wp-admin/credits.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-admin/admin-functions.php  
.
.
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inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-locale-switcher.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-oembed-controller.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-simplepie-sanitize-kses.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/nav-menu.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-includes/class.wp-dependencies.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-signup.php  
  inflating: wordpress/wp-links-opml.php  

Move the file to html directory in the following manner.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  Documents  Music     Public     Videos     wordpress-4.9.6-en_CA.zip
Desktop          Downloads  Pictures  Templates  wordpress
[root@linuxhelp ~]# mv wordpress /var/www/html/

Change ownership and permission of the file as follows

[root@linuxhelp ~]# chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wordpress/
[root@linuxhelp ~]# chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/wordpress/

Create the virtual host for accessing WordPress CMS.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf/wordpress.conf
< VirtualHost *:80> 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.ocm
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress/
< Directory /var/www/html/wordpress/> 
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost> 

Make an entry to the host file as follows

[root@linuxhelp ~]# vim /etc/hosts
< give your ip>    < give your localip> 

Finally, restart the apache to make the changes effect.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# systemctl restart httpd

Now you can proceed the further installation and configuration from the browser by navigating to the following URL: http://< ipaddress or domain name.

You will see the welcome page of WordPress CMS setup.

First, you need to configure the database configuration as follows.

Now click on ' Run the installation' to start the installation process.

Next, you need to configure the site information.

Now you need to configure the admin credentials setup.

After configuration, you can login into WordPress using the admin user.