How to Install WordPress on a VPS (Ubuntu 24.04)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx mariadb-server php-fpm php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-imagick

sudo mysql_secure_installation

sudo mariadb

CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Choose-A-Strong-Password-1';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;

    root /var/www/wordpress;
    index index.php;

    client_max_body_size 64M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\. {
        deny all;
    }
}

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx