Deploying a WordPress application – a hands-on approach

In our first iteration, we already configured an Nginx web server and a MySQL database to host a simple web page. We will now configure a WordPress application on the web server to host news and blogs.

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Scenario:

Following our success of launching a simple web page in iteration 1, the project management department has asked us to set up a WordPress application to serve news articles and blogs in iteration 2.

WordPress is a popular open source web publishing framework based on the LAMP platform, which is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. WordPress is a simple, yet flexible, open source application that powers a lot of blogs and dynamic websites. Running WordPress requires a web server, PHP, and MySQL database. We already have an Nginx web server and MySQL database configured. We will begin by installing and configuring WordPress by creating a role for it and then later on, we will configure PHP.

To create the role, we will use...