Install WordPress on your VPS manually

📅 06/06/2026 · ⏱ 10 min de lectura · 👁️ 28085 vistas

LEMP Stack (Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP)

This guide installs WordPress on a VPS with Ubuntu 22.04 using the LEMP stack, the fastest combination for WordPress.

Step 1 — Install Nginx, MySQL, and PHP

apt update && apt upgrade -y
apt install nginx mysql-server php8.2-fpm php8.2-mysql php8.2-xml php8.2-curl php8.2-mbstring php8.2-zip php8.2-gd -y
systemctl start nginx mysql php8.2-fpm
systemctl enable nginx mysql php8.2-fpm

Step 2 — Create MySQL Database

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER 'wpuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'TuContraseñaSegura';
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wpuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 3 — Download and Install WordPress

cd /var/www
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzf latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress yourdomain
chown -R www-data:www-data yourdomain
chmod -R 755 yourdomain

Step 4 — Configure Nginx for WordPress

Create the file /etc/nginx/conf.d/yourdomain.conf:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name yourdomain.com;
  root /var/www/yourdomain;
  index index.php;

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

  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
}

Then: nginx -t && systemctl reload nginx

Step 5 — Complete Installation from the Browser

Go to http://yourdomain.com and follow the WordPress installation wizard using the database details from Step 2.

✅ WordPress installed. Access the panel at yourdomain.com/wp-admin. To add HTTPS, install Certbot: apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx -y && certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com