Writing an Apache or WordPress introduction will do no good due to the fact that both of them, combined together, are one of the most used Open Source Web Servers on the Internet today, in fact, Apache runs on 36.9% world web servers and WordPress on one of every 6 websites – Apache with MYSQL and PHP providing the dynamic server gateway interface for WordPress Publishing Content Management.

This topic explains the steps needed to be processed in order to install the latest version of WordPress on top of LAMP, which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP and PhpMyAdmin on Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint, with basic Apache Virtual Host configurations and MySQL database access through command-line or PhpMyAdmin Web Interface, but be aware that does not cover other important network service configurations, like an IP name mapping provided by DNS server and simply uses the rudimentary system hosts file for IP name transactions (DNS query).

Releated Read: How to Install WordPress with Nginx on Debian and Ubuntu

Also, the forward settings are available on almost all Debian systems with slight differences (most of them regarding apache paths), which will be noted at the proper time.

Step 1: Server Basic Configurations

1. First of all, due to fact that there’s no authoritative DNS server on the network, and for this setup Apache Virtual Host is used. We need to map server IP to our virtual (fake) domain name to be able to access it like a real domain name from any browser.

To complete this job open and edit ‘/etc/hosts‘ on local server and your preferred domain name on the “127.0.0.1 localhost” line end. In my case, I’ve taken the domain name as ‘wordpress.lan‘.

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