How To Setup WordPress on an Nginx LEMP Server

[@savashzaynal6502]

Aside from the very clear and good information, tutorial and the presentation I really like your manner there is a humbleness and calmness which is really nice and not like those over energetic people I feel like they are going to come through the screen and jump on me.

[@Bielocke]

This was a great tutorial. You saved me!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad I could help!

[@kamsulaman7007]

thank you so much, for anyone having problem with User creation in mysql you can follow these commands: CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci; CREATE USER 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost';

[@prateekshukla7666]

As I reload the page at 9:55, I get an error saying "Error establishing the connection to the database"

[@stevenreybritez]

same

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Please make sure the database credentials match the credentials you provided when creating the database!

[@nousernamealexander]

Thanks, the tutorial is very clear

[@Ninjamtt7]

If i reinstalled nginx, (some issues trying to install certbot) on a lemp system and purged it before the reinstall, is there a video or portion of this to follow to reset/ fix the configurations for its link to Wordpress? Previously aws set it up automatically

[@sudoalex]

Thank you Tony. You're great explaining I just found your channel

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Awesome, thank you! I'm happy to hear that

[@khanriza]

This was a great tutorial!!!!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Riza

[@SanjeevSingh-nl5ii]

Great tutorial. But what about WordPress .htaccess file. If I use w3 total cache with disk enhanced cache then it saves cached files in disk and uses htaccess. What to do here help me plz

[@jesseth9419]

htaccess is apache

[@michelemincone1788]

Hello Tony, great tutorial. Direct and well explained! Have you ever thought to make a tutorial on how to install and config rediscache or memcache or how to install phpmyadmin?

[@dianatshibangu1975]

Hi Tony, I've followed all the instructions, I mistakenly deleted both default file from /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ that's where I' stuck. I tring to create new files they are not working. Please advise? C

[@Mosestylez]

Would this also work on a raspberry pi 4? :)

[@LifeAtlas]

Can you also make a video for how to setup a .net core environment on nginx? Do you have any videos on security for nginx?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sorry, I have no experience with or intention to do any .NET tutorials. As of now, I don't have any nginx security videos, but I'll put it on the list of potential future topics.

[@LifeAtlas]

@@TonyTeachesTech I see, thank you for your reply, it is very much appreaciated!

[@artanhysenaj4401]

Error establishing a database connection, how do i fix this

[@edwarddonnelly2937]

Did I miss something as I'm getting 403 error at setup page

[@mwardell18290]

i would love to know if this could be secured as easily as running '$sudo certbot' and following the menu?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes, if you have properly configured Nginx with your domain name and your DNS settings point to your server, then you can use certbot to issue an SSL cert for your website.

[@Monstajamsofficial]

Nice video, please how can I solve website from going to 404 after I change permalink?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Please use the Redirection WordPress plugin to redirect the old URL to the new URL wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

[@Monstajamsofficial]

Tony Teaches Tech I think it’s something with Nginx, anyway I can solve it ??

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@Monstajamsofficial You will need to look at the Nginx error logs (usually in /var/log/nginx) to get more information about what's going on

[@terrahasher]

Hi Tony, nice video, now i have a question: how to do this in a docker container as you can only run 1 service at the time in a docker container. so you have to make 2 docker containers or do i miss something here?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sorry but I'm not familiar with Docker containers

[@agamurat3019]

will it work without generating keys

[@TonyTeachesTech]

What keys are you referring to?

[@NullableIsLive]

@@TonyTeachesTech salts

[@MemesOfMirzapur]

Make video on server caching on NGINX basically performance tuning of NGINX

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sure thing!

[@razvanmisaras8009]

Hey Tony, i didn't have index.php added i didn't have the php cgi stuff uncommented, lucky I found out about that.

[@TechGurugCom]

I run multiple sites. My letsencrypt had messed up site-available config. Do you have any sample for free ssl site config ?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I have an example Nginx config file on my website here tonyteaches.tech/wordpress-on-nginx-server/

[@MrLazini]

This is a good tutorial I've got a question, why create a user and a password in the MySQL database if you don't use it at all ? Is it just a precondition for MySQL to run properly ?

[@insanitygamer_vibing]

wordpress accesses the database as a user, so as to make configuration easier

[@Erikdulcesaludcl]

Hi, Tony, I followed your videos to configure lemp and finished with this one by installing wordpress. The only thing different that I did, was that I did not install the internal database, but an external one (aws aurora). Everything looks fine, but I get a 403 error when launching the web page. What can be producing this error? Thank you very much, I have learned a lot from your videos.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

A chance that this video might help you kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmK3Zn2AfLxnlcU

[@jagadeeshch7061]

Tip: You may use "nginx -s reload" to reload config instead of Nginx restart as restart breaks all connections and active processes. Just to confirm there aren't any syntax errors, issue "nginx -t"

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks for pointing this out!

[@randomperson712]

Very good tutorial. The only problem I had was with the sites-available/default edit. I am self hosting so I found that I had to remove some comments in the area of the pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server. Other that that it was perfect. Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Happy to hear you got it working. Thanks Random Person :)

[@randomperson712]

Almost off the ground. The only problem Im having now is that uploads to the Media Library seem to be limited to 1MB max. Its always something.

[@youngElephant]

@@randomperson712 That can be changed in the upload limit

[@ddrci88]

Can you Tell is your blog web site is which os/ web server / cache and other stuff it’s so fast :)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes I am working on a video about this topic now... tonyteaches.tech/wordpress-pagespeed-insights-score/ But in the meantime, I use WPX hosting which uses LiteSpeed and installed W3 Cache and EWWW Images Optimizer. No unnecessary plugins!

[@wilsoncounty7051]

Hey Tony, I love your channel. I have a question, how is doing the wordpress setup manually as shown in your video, how is this manual way "better" than just having vultr or DO just add wordpress to the server during setup. I realize this is probably an easy answer, I am a newbie. Thanks!

[@wilsoncounty7051]

In other words, what is the benefit of doing all this if wordpress can be setup automatically?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Good question. There isn't much of a benefit of installing WordPress manually. Doing it yourself, you will have more control over the type of database you create, the name of the database, the username, password, etc. Also, you will learn a bit about how everything works under the hood if you do it yourself

[@amitabh7816]

make video on installing wordpress in laravel like site.com/blog , spcly nginx config...

[@pinkdulin7641]

2:37 i first understand "i dont have to put in user, because im rude" and i was like .. eeh oke .. xD

[@TonyTeachesTech]

LOL how funny is that!

[@lombarrr]

YOU SAVED ME, I LOVE YOU

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Happy to help!

[@mikerollin4073]

Great stuff thanks

[@joashcrawford1325]

Legend thank you so much!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No problem 👍

[@bambanx]

thanks for share Tony

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You bet

[@ddrci88]

How to install ftp , wordpress asking ftp confirmation when I try to delete plugin :)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

This should help you kzbin.info/www/bejne/noHYc5KvjcuVgZI

[@khaidude]

Copied you and it is not working. error 1064 42000. I'm trying to do this with ubuntu 20.04 in virtualbox. HELP

[@TonyTeachesTech]

After a quick Google search, it seems like Error 1064 (42000) is a syntax error. Possibly because you have a ' instead of a ` or something else like that. Double check what you are typing or or copying and pasting. If you're copying and pasting, it's always a good idea to paste into something like Notepad or Textedit first to strip any weird formatting. Let me know if you can get it to work.

[@khaidude]

Tony Teaches Tech I’ve watched a bunch of times and I think I see what I’m doing wrong. I’ll try again tomorrow!

[@khaidude]

Tony Teaches Tech nope. “ You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘grant all on database_name.* to ‘database_user’@‘localhost’ identified by ‘ ‘ at line 1 “

[@khaidude]

Tony Teaches Tech also... It says I have version 8.0.21 and Ubuntu is 20.04.4! And for what it is I want to do, I want to host my own site for free on my home computer. Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@khaidude maybe try the official instructions from wordpress.org which might work with your version wordpress.org/support/article/creating-database-for-wordpress/#using-the-mysql-client

[@joel9909]

Would these apply on localhost??

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Definitely

[@DarkNightSonata]

hi, thank you very much for this tutorial. I love your videos, they're straight to the point and very clear, keep it up. one question, I notice that for example, Linode, offer a one-click installation of wordpress, which one do you think is better? like do it manually like in this tutorial or use the one click? I'm asking, since I'm not very familiar with the backend work and doing things manually might have some security flaws, whereas, I assume the one-click installation is already configured securely by professionals. Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thank you for your kind words. Yes, that's exactly what I would tell people like you who are not familiar with the backend.... By installing WordPress manually, you will miss out on some of the "freebies" that you get with the one-click install such as security at the web server level (Apache/Nginx) and optimizations.

[@awinashsumit4070]

How to setup smtp on LEMP server ?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Maybe one of these videos will help you kzbin.infosearch?query=email

[@adipatileather6560]

500 Internal Server Error please helpme

[@aaronbell5994]

You rock, Tony

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks Aaron!

[@MattDeezly]

Just simply does not work, followed everything to a T. Even used digital ocean. When I go to make the user it just outputs " -> "

[@meliketuran4866]

hi Tony! That is really great one thanks for that. my problem is that there is no digitalocean file in /etc/nginx/sites-available and i think thats why i cannot reach wp admin installation page. How can i solve this?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sounds like either: A) your using Apache... check for /etc/apache2/... B) you need to install Nginx... sudo apt-get install nginx

[@antarikshaakash]

Hey Tony i am facing the same problem

[@antarikshaakash]

@@TonyTeachesTech hey tony, installed nginx following your other video but there is no digitalocean file in etc/nginx/sites-available just default

[@tylerrutt17]

@Tony Teaches Tech hey tony, having same issue as melike turan. No digital ocean file, just the default

[@mrmillford]

@@TonyTeachesTech Hey tony, I'm in the same boat as these fellows. Just the default file present. I tried editing the root file to /var/www/html/wordpress there but my site is 403 forbidden. Is there something else I can do here? Please, it's frustrating getting to the final step and it still not working!

[@razvanmisaras8009]

Amazing!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks!

[@yoyobvai4270]

permission denied?? please solve this

[@TonyTeachesTech]

It is a 403 forbidden error from Nginx? If so, make sure you have your index directive properly configured in your Nginx conf files. Additionally, make sure your website files have a 644 permission and folders have 755.

[@adeled8833]

Why Apache when the title says Nginx

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Did I say Apache?

[@adeled8833]

Tony Teaches Tech 0:45, sorry, didn’t catch the Nginx pic

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@adeled8833 😂 no worries

[@ddrci88]

for begginner who is trying to follow Tony instruction if your mysql version is 8 shortcode dropped by mysql so it wont work, please follow this command : CREATE USER 'ohbabygodeep'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secretareadontgodeep'; - GRANT ALL ON ohbabygodeep.* TO 'secretareadontgodeep'@'localhost';

[@Nimitz_oceo]

video is ok but at 8:55 asking viewers to create their own configuration file where 2 main directories are missing (sites available and site-enabled) is a bit of a strecht and probably just left many people infuriated by not being able to complete the task. You left out many important details that could have been more helpful. Sorry for the rant but that's how it feels.

[@quanganh3315]

thanks a lot

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You are most welcome

[@hosseinse4079]

thank u

[@eduarguz15]

Getting "403 Forbidden nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)" on /wp-admin to install, I've followed several tutorials on how to get wp running, none of them have worked for me :(

[@pramodbadanapuram9578]

I cant see site-available what should to do now