Create a Linode Nano 1 GB instance with the latest version of Ubuntu.
Set the root password and SSH key through the Linode web interface.
As root, install web server, DB, and connection between them
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install nginx mariadb-server php-fpm php-mysql php-gd php-imagick php-dom php-mbstring php-curl php-zip
Then
cd /var/www
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
md5sum latest.tar.gz
Check MD5 against https://wordpress.org/download/releases/
tar xzvf latest.tar.gz
rm -rf html
mv wordpress html
rm latest.tar.gz
cd html
cp ./wp-config-sample.php ./wp-config.php
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
Open up wp-config.php and add database credentials.
Create database for Wordpress.
[bstaff01@nolopwp-dev-01 ~]$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "secret-password-goes-here";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
MariaDB [(none)]> EXIT;
Bye
Configure PHP-FPM and PHP-MySQL
systemctl restart nginx
systemctl restart php7.4-fpm
Create file nginx-wordpress.conf in /etc/nginx/sites-available containing
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tufts-nolop/nolop-software-infrastructure/master/nginx-wordpress.conf
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
rm default
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx-wordpress.conf default
root@li905-38:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Oct 30 14:50 default -> /etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx-wordpress.conf
Set up SSL certificates
snap install core
snap refresh core
snap install --classic certbot
Comment out the SSL section at the end of nginx.conf and run
certbot --nginx
Add to server block in nginx-wordpress.conf:
client_max_body_size 200M;
Restart Nginx.
Log in to Wordpress and copy over Wordpress backups.
Install backups.
Lie down and die like a proud man.