Install Wordpress on Ubuntu 16.04
Step 4: Download WordPress Now that our server software is configured, we can download and set up WordPress. For security reasons in particular, it is always recommended to get the latest version of WordPress from their site. Change into a writable directory and then download the compressed release by typing: cd /tmp curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz Extract the compressed file to create the WordPress directory structure: tar xzvf latest.tar.gz We will be moving these files into our document root momentarily. Before we do, we can add a dummy .htaccess file and set its permissions so that this will be available for WordPress to use later. Create the file and set the permissions by typing: touch /tmp/wordpress/.htaccess chmod 660 /tmp/wordpress/.htaccess We'll also copy over the sample configuration file to the filename that WordPress actually reads: cp /tmp/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /tmp/wordpress/wp-config.php We can also creat...