A bash script to quickly install a WordPress site in your Linux-based development environment.

install-wp will download WordPress from WordPress.org, extract the files to your desired document root, create the database and database user with values extracted from MySQL Option files, create a wp-config.php file with the correct values and configure a server block or virtual host for the desired domain.

install-wp is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by the WordPress Foundation or the WordPress open source project.

install-wp requires a Linux-based environment with Nginx or Apache web server, MySQL or MariaDB and PHP(FPM) installed.

Other requirements are CURL, Tar and AWK, which likely already are installed on your system.

Before running the script for the first time you'll need to create two MySQL Option files in your home directory.

You can copy the files install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-admin-template.cnf and install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-site-template.cnf to create your option files. These files must be placed in ~/install-wp/conf/ and must be named mysql-opts-admin.cnf and mysql-opts-site.cnf respectively.

Important: Make sure you restrict access to these files so that unauthorized users can't see your database passwords!

Copy the MySQL option files and set the correct permissions:

cp ~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-admin-template.cnf ~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-admin.cnf
chmod 600 ~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-admin.cnf
cp ~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-site-template.cnf ~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-site.cnf
chmod 600 ~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-site.cnf

Next, use your preferred text editor and update the usernames, passwords and database name in your newly created files.

~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-admin.cnf needs to contain a [client] section with a user and a password. This needs to be an existing database user with privileges required to create databases, users and set grants.

Example:

[client]
user=username
password=user_password

~/install-wp/conf/mysql-opts-site.cnf needs to contain a [client] section with a user, a password and a database. This database and user will be created for your by the script. These same values will also be entered into the created wp-config.php file.

Example:

[client]
user=username
password=user_password
database=database_name

Note: The script must be run with sudo.

Example to install a new WordPress site with the domain your.domain.com, with a document root of /var/www/your.domain.com/public_html, served by an Nginx web server.

cd ~/install-wp/
sudo ./install-wp.sh -d your.domain.com --document-root /var/www/your.domain.com/public_html --nginx

After running the above, simply visit your.domain.com to run the usual WordPress installation.

Example to install a new WordPress site without creating a server block (virtual host), with a document root of /var/www/wordpress/public_html, served by an Nginx web server.

cd ~/install-wp/
sudo ./install-wp.sh --document-root /var/www/wordpress/public_html --nginx

The above will not create a server block but will set the correct file permissions so that Nginx can access and serve the files.

Example to install a new WordPress site with the domain your.domain.com, with a document root of /var/www/your.domain.com/public_html, served by an Apache web server.

cd ~/install-wp/
sudo ./install-wp.sh -d your.domain.com --document-root /var/www/your.domain.com/public_html --apache2

After running the above, simply visit your.domain.com to run the usual WordPress installation.

Example to install a new WordPress site without creating a virtual host, with a document root of /var/www/wordpress/public_html, served by an Apache web server.

cd ~/install-wp/
sudo ./install-wp.sh --document-root /var/www/wordpress/public_html --apache2

The above will not create a virtual host but will set the correct file permissions so that Apache can access and serve the files.