Follow these 3 Steps and watch video. Need help? Contact me. 😊
Now before you get started, here’s a quick tip. Use Search and Replace Extension to bulk change
Time-saving tip for Google Chrome users.example.com
to your own domain in this web page.

Part A: Keep Cloudflare Nameservers active
We will be using Cloudflare DNS for getting Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL certificate. Complete this step first to enjoy zero-downtime migration.
Check Current Nameservers
- Find your active Nameservers at https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/example.com
- If you see using your previous Hosting or Domain registrar default NS, then you must replace with Cloudflare.
- Learn how to use Cloudflare DNS
Part B: Get a Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS Server ready

1. Sign up Vultr to grab $100 Free credits (Valid for 30 days)
As someone who have tried so many Cloud server company, my experience says you can’t go wrong with Vultr. These guys are genuine and caring when it comes to support and services.

âš¡ Performance
- NVME / SSD
- 3.7 GHz CPU
- Up to 5Gbps Network Speed
- Datacenter in America, Europe, Asia, Austraillia
- IPV6 ready
💡 Features
- Beginner-Friendly Dashboard
- One-click to Snapshot
- Automtatic Backup (Paid)
- Free Cloud Firewall
- DDoS protection (Paid)
- 100% KVM Virtualization
âš™ Support
- PayPal/Card
- 24/7 Ticket Support
- Documentation
2. Create a new VPS Server
Simply click on the plus button to get started

3. Choose High Frequency Server

Select High frequency compute for the fastest experience. It uses 3.7 GHz CPU and NVME storage.

4. Choose a Server Location
Choose a server location that is close to your target audience.

Tip: If you are deploying a static WordPress on BunnyCDN Storage, select Germany for the fastest upload experience.
5. Select Ubuntu 20.04 x64 OS
This is a long term supported version. It is compatible with most packages that we are going to install.

6. Choose a Server Size

$6/mo plan would be a great starting point for a new blog. You can upgrade anytime as per requirement.
Tip: If you are migrating, check Total installation size in Site health info.

7. Enable IPV6, Backup

Ignore Startup Script. This is not required. 👇

8. Add a SSH key
This is a recommended, optional step for the enhanced security.

- Click on Add New button to add a new SSH key to submit your 🔒Public key.
- Generate Keys using below method as per your OS.

- Download PuTTy application.
- Search for PuTTygen in the Start menu
- Click on Generate button and hover mouse pointer
- Copy Public key and provide to Vultr
- Enter key passphrase
- Save 🔑Private Key at the safest location.
- This can be used for login to SSH or SFTP.

- Run:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
. For a more secure 4096-bit key, run:ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
- Press enter when asked where you want to save the key (this will use the default location).
- Enter a passphrase for your key.
- Run
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
– this will give you the key in the proper format to paste into the control panel. - Make sure you backup the
~/.ssh/id_rsa
file. This cannot be recovered if it is lost.
Select your SSH key
Following these steps will attach your public key to your new Instance. Then, you will be able to login to SSH using Plain Text password and SSH key both.

9. Link Web Firewall rule to Server Instance

- Click on Manage and create a new Firewall Group.
- Allow TCP port 22 for SSH. 80 for HTTP and 443 HTTPS for IPV4 and IPV6 rules both.
- Once done, link the Firewall group to your Instance.


10. Enter Hostname and label click Deploy Now

Now, you will see installing in the progress

15. Go to New Instance page
Copy IP address, username and password. Your default port is 22.

16. Disable Password Login
For security reasons, it’s recommended to disable password authentication and allow only key based authentication.
- Edit the configuration file
nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- Find (CTRL + W) and search
PasswordAuthentication
- Change value from yes to no
- To save type, CTRL + O
- Restart the SSH service using command
sudo service ssh restart

From the next time, you can use SSH via key only as shown in the video.
For Linux or Mac, use Terminal with command like this
ssh root@192.168.1.1 -p 22 -i id_rsa
Enough explanation for basic things. Now, I’ll speed up the original process for deploying WordPress on the LEMP stack.
Part C. Deploy WordPress on LEMP Stack
1. Update repositories
Type below command and press enter key
sudo -s
apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt dist-upgrade && apt autoclean && apt autoremove -y && reboot
or
wget -qO update https://www.gulshankumar.net/update && chmod +x update
Next time, always use below shortcut command to update.
./update
2. Install MariaDB with security
Login again and enter following command
sudo apt install mariadb-server -y && sudo mysql_secure_installation
Answer below questions
- Enter current password for root (enter for none): Press Enter key
- Set root password? [Y/n]: Press Enter key.
- New password: Type your password, you can use Dashlane to generate. Right to click paste.
- Re-enter new password: Re-type your password.
After successful password set, you will see
Password updated successfully! Reloading privilege tables.. ... Success!
Also, you need answer following questions.
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Press Y and enter
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Press Y and enter
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Press Y and enter
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Press Y and enter
3. Create a new Database for WordPress
Login to MySQL, press enter key when it asks for password.
mysql -u root -p
Create a new Database, and Grant Privileges to use its user with password. This is where WordPress store all post, pages, themes, plugin, etc information.
create database wordpress;
grant all on wordpress.* to gulshan@localhost identified by '5pY8CKJxDRJEGQNkX7';
flush privileges;
exit;
Where your …
database is wordpress
username is gulshan
password is 5pY8CKJxDRJEGQNkX7
Tip: Consider using unique login credential
4. Install PHP 7.4, NGINX and set Permission
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y && apt update && apt install php7.4-fpm php7.4-common php7.4-mysql php7.4-xml php7.4-xmlrpc php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-imagick php7.4-cli php7.4-dev php7.4-imap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-soap php7.4-zip php7.4-bcmath -y && sed -i 's/;cgi.fix_pathinfo=1/cgi.fix_pathinfo=0/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini && service php7.4-fpm restart && apt install nginx -y && chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ && chmod -R 755 /var/www
Tweak PHP Configuration
Most fancy theme and plugin requires high-end PHP configuration to run. Therefore, we should make this changes.
sed -i 's/memory_limit = 128M/memory_limit = 512M/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini
sed -i 's/post_max_size = 8M/post_max_size = 128M/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini
sed -i 's/max_file_uploads = 20/max_file_uploads = 30/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini
sed -i 's/max_execution_time = 30/max_execution_time = 900/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini
sed -i 's/max_input_time = 60/max_input_time = 3000/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini
sed -i 's/upload_max_filesize = 2M/upload_max_filesize = 128M/g' /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini
service php7.4-fpm restart
5. Install Wildcard Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate
Create a cloudflare.ini
file inside /root/.secrets/
directory.
mkdir -p /root/.secrets/ && cd /root/.secrets/ && nano cloudflare.ini
Add below code and save using CTRL+O and exit using CTRL+X
dns_cloudflare_email = "your-cloudflare-email@example.com"
dns_cloudflare_api_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Fnd your Cloudflare e-mail and Global API key at “My Profile” > API Tokens > Global API Key
chmod 0400 /root/.secrets/cloudflare.ini
Install Certbot and DNS Authenticator according to OS and HTTP web server
snap install --beta --classic certbot
snap set certbot trust-plugin-with-root=ok
snap install --beta certbot-dns-cloudflare
snap connect certbot:plugin certbot-dns-cloudflare
Get Wildcard SSL Certificate
certbot certonly --dns-cloudflare --dns-cloudflare-credentials /root/.secrets/cloudflare.ini -d example.com,*.example.com --preferred-challenges dns-01
Set Automatic Renewal using Cron Job
- Type
crontab -e
- Type 1 for nano editor
- Enter below command and save
0 0 * * * /etc/init.d/nginx reload >/dev/null 2>&1
Test renewal
certbot renew --dry-run
6. Configure Nginx Server Block
This is important where you need configure your domain, how NGINX should handle your HTTP requests.
Delete default server blocks.
rm /etc/nginx/sites-available/default && rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Create a new server block
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
nano example.com
- Replace
example.com
with own domain - Enter below code and Press ctrl+o to save and ctrl+x to exit.
General
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
# Document Root
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name .example.com;
client_max_body_size 0;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2 ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl http2;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:20m;
ssl_session_timeout 20m;
ssl_ciphers 'TLS13+AESGCM+AES128:EECDH+AES128';
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~* \.php$ {
if ($uri !~ "^/uploads/") {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
allow all;
}
location ~* .(css|gif|svg|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires 1y;
log_not_found off;
}
# Enable Gzip compression.
gzip on;
# Disable Gzip on IE6.
gzip_disable "msie6";
# Allow proxies to cache both compressed and regular version of file.
# Avoids clients that don't support Gzip outputting gibberish.
gzip_vary on;
# Compress data, even when the client connects through a proxy.
gzip_proxied any;
# The level of compression to apply to files. A higher compression level increases
# CPU usage. Level 5 is a happy medium resulting in roughly 75% compression.
gzip_comp_level 5;
# Compress the following MIME types.
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/json
application/ld+json
application/manifest+json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.geo+json
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/bmp
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/cache-manifest
text/css
text/plain
text/vcard
text/vnd.rim.location.xloc
text/vtt
text/x-component
text/x-cross-domain-policy;
}
For cache Enabler
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
# Document Root
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name .example.com;
client_max_body_size 0;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2 ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl http2;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:20m;
ssl_session_timeout 20m;
ssl_ciphers 'TLS13+AESGCM+AES128:EECDH+AES128';
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
# Rules for Cache Enabler Plugin - Static File Serving
set $cache_uri $request_uri;
# bypass cache if POST requests or URLs with a query string
if ($request_method = POST) {
set $cache_uri 'nullcache';
}
if ($query_string != '') {
set $cache_uri 'nullcache';
}
# bypass cache if URLs containing the following strings
if ($request_uri ~* '(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|wp-.*.php|/feed/|index.php|wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php|sitemap(index)?.xml|[a-z0-9-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml)') {
set $cache_uri 'nullcache';
}
# bypass cache if cookies contain the following strings
if ($http_cookie ~* '(wp-postpass|wordpress_logged_in|comment_author)_') {
set $cache_uri 'nullcache';
}
# custom installation subdirectory
set $custom_subdir '';
# default HTML file
set $cache_enabler_uri '${custom_subdir}/wp-content/cache/cache-enabler/${http_host}${cache_uri}${scheme}-index.html';
# WebP HTML file
if ($http_accept ~* 'image/webp') {
set $cache_enabler_uri '${custom_subdir}/wp-content/cache/cache-enabler/${http_host}${cache_uri}${scheme}-index-webp.html';
}
location / {
gzip_static on; # this directive is not required but recommended
try_files $cache_enabler_uri $uri $uri/ $custom_subdir/index.php?$args;
}
location ~* \.php$ {
if ($uri !~ "^/uploads/") {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
allow all;
}
location ~* .(css|gif|svg|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires 1y;
log_not_found off;
}
# Enable Gzip compression.
gzip on;
# Disable Gzip on IE6.
gzip_disable "msie6";
# Allow proxies to cache both compressed and regular version of file.
# Avoids clients that don't support Gzip outputting gibberish.
gzip_vary on;
# Compress data, even when the client connects through a proxy.
gzip_proxied any;
# The level of compression to apply to files. A higher compression level increases
# CPU usage. Level 5 is a happy medium resulting in roughly 75% compression.
gzip_comp_level 5;
# Compress the following MIME types.
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/json
application/ld+json
application/manifest+json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.geo+json
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/bmp
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/cache-manifest
text/css
text/plain
text/vcard
text/vnd.rim.location.xloc
text/vtt
text/x-component
text/x-cross-domain-policy;
}
- You need to install Cache Enabler plugin to enjoy cache benefit.
FastCGI
If you want to use FastCGI Cache then implement below Server Block instead.
# NGINX Cache path
fastcgi_cache_path /var/www/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=WORDPRESS:100m inactive=6h;
fastcgi_cache_key "$scheme$request_method$host$request_uri";
fastcgi_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header http_500;
fastcgi_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires Set-Cookie;
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name .example.com;
client_max_body_size 0;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2 ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl http2;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:20m;
ssl_session_timeout 20m;
ssl_ciphers 'TLS13+AESGCM+AES128:EECDH+AES128';
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
set $skip_cache 0;
if ($request_method = POST) {set $skip_cache 1;}
if ($request_uri ~* "/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-.*.php|index.php|sitemap(_index)?.xml") {set $skip_cache 1;}
if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wp-postpass|wordpress_no_cache|wordpress_logged_in") {set $skip_cache 1;}
if ($query_string = "unapproved*") {set $skip_cache 1;}
if ($cookie_woocommerce_items_in_cart = "1" ){ set $skip_cache 1;}
if ($request_uri ~* "/(cart|checkout|my-account)/*$") {set $skip_cache 1;}
location ~* \.php$ {
if ($uri !~ "^/uploads/") {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm-example.sock;
}
try_files $uri =404;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_cache_bypass $skip_cache;
fastcgi_no_cache $skip_cache;
fastcgi_cache WORDPRESS;
fastcgi_cache_valid 200 301 24h;
add_header X-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
allow all;
}
location ~* .(css|gif|ico|svg|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires 1y;
log_not_found off;
}
# Enable Gzip compression.
gzip on;
# Disable Gzip on IE6.
gzip_disable "msie6";
# Allow proxies to cache both compressed and regular version of file.
# Avoids clients that don't support Gzip outputting gibberish.
gzip_vary on;
# Compress data, even when the client connects through a proxy.
gzip_proxied any;
# The level of compression to apply to files. A higher compression level increases
# CPU usage. Level 5 is a happy medium resulting in roughly 75% compression.
gzip_comp_level 5;
# Compress the following MIME types.
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/json
application/ld+json
application/manifest+json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.geo+json
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/bmp
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/cache-manifest
text/css
text/plain
text/vcard
text/vnd.rim.location.xloc
text/vtt
text/x-component
text/x-cross-domain-policy;
}
To save, press CTRL+O and Enter key. Then, exit nano editor using command CTRL+X.
In case of FastCGI, you need to use NGINX Cache plugin for purging Cache. Do note your Cache path is /var/www/cache
this plugin is suitable for purging AMP cache well. Unfortunately, this works only with English blog.
Caution!
If you run a Hindi blog with encoded URL, please do not use NGINX Cache plugin instead use NGINX Helper instead with below snippet in as per this tutorial. If you have implemented custom cache path you can use below constant.
define('RT_WP_NGINX_HELPER_CACHE_PATH', '/var/www/cache/');
- This plugin has one catch, it doesn’t purge AMP version. Also, my above FastCGI method has one limitation it works for responsive theme only.
- For example, If you’re using Newspaper theme and serve seperate Mobile theme, please stick without FastCGI method and use a plugin WP Rocket because it can serve seperate mobile cache out of the box.
7. Create Symbolic links between two directories
If you miss this step, you may get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
To activate server block, create a symbolic link of your NGINX Server Block file from directory/etc/nginx/sites-available/
to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
.
Before running below command, please replace example.com
to own domain.
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test configuration
nginx -t
Restart and update
service nginx restart && service php7.4-fpm restart && service mysql restart && apt-get update && apt upgrade -y
7. Install WordPress
We are going to download WordPress core files in /var/www/html
directory
cd /var/www/html && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz && tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz && mv -v wordpress/* /var/www/html && rm -rf index.nginx-debian.html latest.tar.gz wordpress && chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ && sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www
To update permission in future, use below command
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/ && sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www
8. Override hosts file
This is suitable for advanced user generally for local machine for performing zero downtime migration. This can be useful for live server as well to prevent proxy-mess. I generally prefer incase of Static WordPress Development area. 😉
- There are two ways to point DNS. If you are migrating site to Vultr and want to test first locally then edit your hosts file and point there.
For Windows
- Go to properties of ‪C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
- Change “Security” permission to full control for your current Username
- Now you can freely edit the hosts file under your System user and save it.
# For same machine you can have localhost address else public IP
127.0.0.1 example.com
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
An example, this is how it should look
For Mac or Linux
cd && nano /etc/hosts- If everything is perfect and you want to make your site live, Login to Cloudflare DNS and update new IP
A ---------- @ -----------> Server IPV4 address
AAAA ------- @ -----------> Server IPV6 address
CNAME ------www -----------------> example.com
where @
denotes naked domain example.com
9. Visit your domain name to setup WordPress
If you want to keep non-www version domain for your WordPress then visit non-www version else www.
https://example.com
- Provide Database login credential to begin WordPress Setup
- Run Installation
- Fill up Basic details of your new Site and Install WordPress.
- Login to WordPress
- If you used FastCGI server block then first thing you should do is installing NGINX Cache plugin and configuring
/var/www/cache
as cache path.
Other neccessary things
Use SMTP plugin Services for sending outgoing email of WordPress otherwise you will not be able to receive password reset link, contact form 7 messages.
Finally, the WordPress Installation has been completed. Always keep backup.
External resources
- HGK Forum: https://help.gulshankumar.net/t/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-lemp-in-ubuntu-18-04/2954
- {bjørn:johansen}: https://www.bjornjohansen.com/wildcard-certificate-letsencrypt-cloudflare
- LinuxBabe: Installing Postfix (You can as alternative of WP SMTP).
I greatly appreciate your valuable time for reading this article. See you in the next tutorial!
Thanks a lot gulshran .you save my breath
i search everywhere but not find any good article
you explained very well along with security concern
well done
Thanks a lot gulshran .you save my breath
i search everywhere but not find any good article
you explained very well along with security concern
well done
Finally I loved this step by step tutorial with proper images.
Thanks Bhaiya you are awesome
Finally I loved this step by step tutorial with proper images.
Thanks Bhaiya you are awesome
Hi,
Thank you for this awesome guide.
How can I install WordPress multisite on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx?
Hi,
Thank you for this awesome guide.
How can I install WordPress multisite on Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx?
Thanks Gulshan, Finally I moved to NGINX server. You have created a great tutorial for beginners.
You’re welcome bro 🙂
Thanks Gulshan, Finally I moved to NGINX server. You have created a great tutorial for beginners.
You’re welcome bro 🙂
Thank you for your tutorial, its the first one that actually showed me the wordpress setup page.
When I went to upload a plugin I received this message. “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini”
How do I increase the max filesize?
Please see the step 33.5
Thank you for your tutorial, its the first one that actually showed me the wordpress setup page.
When I went to upload a plugin I received this message. “The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini”
How do I increase the max filesize?
Please see the step 33.5
Thanks sos un groso, very well tutorial
Thanks sos un groso, very well tutorial
How to auto-renew SSL?
Add below cron job
crontab -e
Add below command and save.
15 3 * * 7 certbot renew --post-hook "service nginx restart"
How to auto-renew SSL?
Add below cron job
crontab -e
Add below command and save.
15 3 * * 7 certbot renew --post-hook "service nginx restart"
Very well. thank you so much
Very well. thank you so much
Hello Gulshan Bro, First i want to say you that this is very beautiful and required post. I am really appreciating your work. but i have a problem can you please tell me
i have a droplet with digitalocean ($5/month plan) and i want to host multiple wordpress sites only with nginx(lemp ubuntu 18.04).
In simple i mean that this tutorial is complete to install a single wordpress and i did it but tell host it in some other sites
Hey Rohit,
Assuming, second site is example2.org
You need to follow steps this way.
1. create a new directory and add WordPress (Ref: steps 31)
cd /var/www/
mkdir example2
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
mv -v wordpress/* /var/www/example2
rm -rf index.nginx-debian.html latest.tar.gz wordpress
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www
2. Create a new Server block with root path located to new directory as created in step 1.
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
nano gulshankumar-org
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/example2;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example2.org www.example2.org;
...
3. Point your example2.org domain to DNS, then install SSL
certbot --nginx -d example2.org -d www.example2.org
4. Create new MySQL database
sudo mysql -u root -p
create database example2;
grant all on example2.* to example2@localhost identified by 'TYPE HERE PASSWORD';
flush privileges;
exit;
5. Proceed to Installation by visiting your site
https://example2.org
Let me know if you have any additional question. You can always visit our forum for quick assistance.
Thanks & Regards,
Gulshan
It Really Works Gulshan Bro. Thanks Really dear You are awesome…
Hello Gulshan Bro, First i want to say you that this is very beautiful and required post. I am really appreciating your work. but i have a problem can you please tell me
i have a droplet with digitalocean ($5/month plan) and i want to host multiple wordpress sites only with nginx(lemp ubuntu 18.04).
In simple i mean that this tutorial is complete to install a single wordpress and i did it but tell host it in some other sites
Hey Rohit,
Assuming, second site is example2.org
You need to follow steps this way.
1. create a new directory and add WordPress (Ref: steps 31)
cd /var/www/
mkdir example2
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
mv -v wordpress/* /var/www/example2
rm -rf index.nginx-debian.html latest.tar.gz wordpress
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www
2. Create a new Server block with root path located to new directory as created in step 1.
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
nano gulshankumar-org
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/example2;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example2.org www.example2.org;
...
3. Point your example2.org domain to DNS, then install SSL
certbot --nginx -d example2.org -d www.example2.org
4. Create new MySQL database
sudo mysql -u root -p
create database example2;
grant all on example2.* to example2@localhost identified by 'TYPE HERE PASSWORD';
flush privileges;
exit;
5. Proceed to Installation by visiting your site
https://example2.org
Let me know if you have any additional question. You can always visit our forum for quick assistance.
Thanks & Regards,
Gulshan
It Really Works Gulshan Bro. Thanks Really dear You are awesome…
Hello Gulshan you written a comprehensive guide i highly appreciate your work. Can you help me with an error? Actually i have two websites the first website i have already hosted on Vultr following the above guide.
But when try to host a another WordPress website iam getting error. I followed the above steps you mentioned in comments. But still not able to fix it. The error is my website not working after hosting another WordPress website.
If possible please guide me step by step instructions. It will help me alot. Thanks in advance.
Consider checking log available at
/var/log/nginx/
directory. Usenginx -t
command to see what mistake causing issue.i want redirect too www plz help me urgent
If your WordPress General Settings has www version, server will do automatically. No additional action is required. In case you started WordPress installation at non-www version, then you need to migrate by changing at Database level.
i want redirect too www plz help me urgent
If your WordPress General Settings has www version, server will do automatically. No additional action is required. In case you started WordPress installation at non-www version, then you need to migrate by changing at Database level.
You may use Better Search Replce plugin to perform this changes.
How Can I setup FastCGI on my ngnix server guided by you….
I have updated my article.
Wonderful tutorial just complete solution for Nginx Fast CGI
Thanks Wasim for your kind feedback.
Hi would like to know after configuring Fastcgi do we still need other caching plugin to speed up WordPress site?
Hey Gulshan,
In the 7th step while texting ngnix I got
nginx: [emerg] open() “/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com” failed (2: No such file or directory) in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:62
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
This error. How I can solve it? also what the error.
Please delete your existing server block and create again at sites-available and symlink at sites-enabled directory. The step 6 and 7 cover that clearly. Consider following patiently without any error. If you still face any problem, do let me know. Thanks for taking to leave your valuable comment.
How to check if fastcgi cache is working or not? while running sudo
curl -I https://example.com
it is not showing x-cache parameterI am facing problem of infinite loop redirects. I had use fastcache code. how to fix it
Please try Full SSL mode of Cloudflare. Then check again!
Hi Gulshan, I am also receiving the test failed error on step 7. I have tried several times now on different setup and still stuck here. Please could you help?
Please carefully read the post and then copy-paste code in Terminal. Sometime you need to replace with your own domain. Doing mistake can return error. Else, no wise. I use this guide everyday for myself. I am not aware about any problem.
In case of trouble
1. Run test using
nginx -t
2. Check logs to get proper hint
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log
3. Delete existing or earlier created virtualhost
rm /etc/nginx/sites-available/default && rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
4. Make sure to replace example.com at all places, a) when you create conf file, its naming. b) when you add conf file and c) when you create symlink, check your command its conf file name must match with first process.
I feel in most cases, chances are you did not replaced
server_name .example.com;
to own domain, or you did not obtained SSL. All steps are written in serial order as it should be.This article is like Life-Saver for one of my website. I was about to move from Google Cloud to Digital Ocean because the trial was expired and I also wanted to use DigitaOcean because it is in-expensive yet powerful and gives great experience.
Previously, I used webinoly stack which was straightforward for installing WordPress but later on I got to know from Gulshan that there are so many issues with that stack so, this time I was going to do it manually. I checked the official guide by Digital ocean but end up with many confusion and issues. Then, I fortunately asked Gulshan for help and he recommended this article for me.
I installed WordPress easily and very fast even fast that Webinoly stack. Thanks a lot Gulshan for writing this amazing article. Hats off to you bro!!🎩
hi, Gulshan thanks for sharing.
can u please share how to install wp on subfoler?
I alwyas keep this guide bookmarket to my web browser! You never know when I would need to setup a new LEMP server ! Thanks Gulshan
Thanks for your comment.
Nice tutorial. Does it come with email hosting? Looking to make a small site in Singapore using VultrHF
E-mail is a different thing. G Suite by Google services is specialized in this segment.
What are the differences if any between doing this method and using the vultr 1 click install? I have also read about centminmod. Is that somrthing u will recommend for having a fast LEMP stack? Tnx
It was a good article
Thanks for your comment.