Install WordPress in your VPS manualmente

📅 Actualizado: 2026-04-02 ⏱ 10 min de lectura

Stack LEMP (Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP)

Esta guide instala WordPress en un VPS with Ubunyour 22.04 using el stack LEMP, la combinación más rápida 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 database MySQL

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

Step 3 — Download e install WordPress

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

Step 4 — Configure Nginx for WordPress

Crea el file /etc/nginx/conf.d/tudomain.conf:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name tudomain.com;
  root /var/www/tudomain;
  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;
  }
}

Luego: nginx -t && systemctl reload nginx

Step 5 — Completer instalación from el navegador

Ve a http://tudomain.com and sigue el asistente de instalación de WordPress with los data of the database of the Step 2.

✅ WordPress instalado. Log in tol panel en tudomain.com/wp-admin. For agregar HTTPS, instala Certbot: apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx -y && certbot --nginx -d tudomain.com