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I am trying to make a Wordpress website for my local PC. I have done it on Windows before so I was thinking why not learn how to do it on Ubunutu.

After a cobble of days with YouTube videos and guides that doesn't help I was thinking I will try here

My first problem I actually run in is that when I install my MySQL I don't get the option to give it a password that I have to do manual.

After that I log in on my MySQL and make a database.

I install WordPress.

Now my second problem appears. When I try to set it up by using localhost/wordpress in my browser I came into a WordPress set-up site but when I give it my informations it fails and that's here I go stuck

Can any help me?

Soren A
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Jimmi Larsen
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Note: This answer does not help to fix your specific issue with the installation. It is rather another way to run wordpress very easily which might be helpful to you or others finding this question.

You could use docker to run wordpress in just a few seconds:

  1. Install docker and docker-compose

  2. Create a folder somewhere, e.g.

    mkdir -p ~/opt/wordpress

  3. Create a file docker-compose.yaml in that folder with following content:

    version: '3.1'

services:

  wordpress:
    image: wordpress
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: example

  mysql:
    image: mysql:5.7
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example

  4. cd to the folder and run docker-compose up

  5. Point your browser to localhost:8080. Done.

This is just the basic installation procedure.
For persistance you need to add a volume, see here for more details.

pLumo
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