Change the owner/group permission of /var/www/ directory so that you can extract wordpress in /var/www/ directory.
Open the terminal and type the following command:
sudo chown username /var/www/
Open: www.wordpress.org
Click the button ‘Download WordPress’
After you download wordpress, open the terminal and move to the directory /var/www/ and unzip the wordpress zip file here by typing the following command: # unzip wordpress-X.X.X.zip [press enter]
Start the LAMP server.
Login to MySQL console: mysql -u root -p
Create a new database for wordpress via this command:
CREATE DATABASE ‘wordpress’;
If everything went alright then you will get a result:
Query ok, 1 row affected (0.xsec)
Database for wordpress is ready. Now open localhost in your web-browser. You will see the following page:
Click the Button ‘Create a Configuration File’
Click ‘Let’s go’
Enter the database name, Database Username, Password, Default host is ‘localhost’ and you may enter a table prefix if you want to use your wordpress database for other installations. If not you may leave the table prefix as it is.
Click ‘Submit’ button
The following page will get visible in your netbook, click ‘Run the install’
Choose a title for your website.
Choose a username and password
Choose an e-mail address
Click ‘Install WordPress’
Now click ‘Log In’
Enter the username and password you have chosen and press ‘enter’
Welcome to your dashboard, from here you can handle your website easily.
