WordPress/Installation/CentOS

Ubuntu Installation | CentOS Installation
Installation done on CentOS 6.9

Download required packages

~$ sudo yum install mysql-server php php-mysql -y 

Date

Make sure your date/time is set correctly

~$ date -s "5 FEB 2018 18:54:00" 

Setup MySQL

Start MySQL

~$ sudo service mysqld start

Set the root password

~$ sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation 
Enter current password for root (enter for none):
Set root password? [Y/n] y
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

Configure MySQL

~$ mysql -u root -p
~$ mysql> CREATE USER 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'THISpasswordSHOULDbeCHANGED';
~$ mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
~$ mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpress'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpressuserpassword' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Install Wordpress

~$ sudo mkdir /opt/wordpress && sudo wget -O /opt/wordpress/wordpress-4.9.2.tar.gz https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
~$ mkdir /var/www/html/website.com
~$ tar -C /var/www/html/website.com/ -zxf /opt/wordpress/wordpress-4.9.2.tar.gz
~$ sudo cp -r /var/www/html/website.com/wordpress/* /var/www/html/website.com/
~$ sudo rm -r var/www/html/website.com/wordpress/

Configure Wordpress

~$ cp /var/www/html/website.com/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/website.com/wp-config.php
~$ ~$ vim /var/www/html/website.com/wp-config.php
...
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

it would also be a good idea to SALT your authentication and cookies. go to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ and it will auto generate random salts. You can change these at any time to invalidate all cookies given out forcing users to log back in.

~$ ~$ vim /var/www/html/website.com/wp-config.php
...
define('AUTH_KEY',         'mMHx%-{<+&.P~c27Yw;jQ*,bp*%W4vPF#/vo_[Q`My07j*zXj27PRumC-|4mhCV)');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'cu#`Jh,?^}jh%~#NE/:hzB<iCMf$@D| 4/ov|-OHrA=`/%? k15|T}k^kl2%ZaGP');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'w!Ur~brqVe~B]-M^^YQ]gc[oo9oKsg.M//TH=k#mf_#Kq>AKbMih|B(8yuE`~dlI');
define('NONCE_KEY',        '(+1vx]Q;)%&3Z}j1[${Q#/F5i465kTrOEG{hyM<|dv hfV2U%|@M6m|Fn9EnE1}^');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'W((kWAX/0`-VZ`#30)0]:&D}c0KZg|aMhF5=L6wtJotRA2}DeD;,(YC_m67aq) W');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'D?fyi DhO&98g,R^+h[= XyeEp+Y?WcNDUv@!:1^PoNUD4xa|ko/a}mK*0i!w3{b');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   '}=JeV6A!uhkMC2hYH2Bwr-ME%|nnr!rvPH9Lt/S8Z%i>Z5s=<%x4F[NsUl3`Q.m{');
define('NONCE_SALT',       'H4{=At.DFY+rUv{~L|fKbn/]W_UY-`EcUc`Su$LU|wdI@qi/>*z~g!qB+;/K|asG');

Configure Folders and Permissions

Wordpress needs the appropriate permissions setup in order to load content properly.

To determine what user/group your httpd uses, you can run this command.

~$ egrep -i '^user|^group' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
User apache
Group apache

Create the upload directory

~$ mkdir /var/www/html/website.com/wp-content/uploads 

Installation instructions say to give the sudo user and the apache user ownership of all the wordpress files and folders

~$ sudo chown -R root:apache /var/www/html/website.com/*

HTTPD Configuration

If you've already got a site setup, you may already have httpd configured. If not, it's fairly easy.

If you're going with a subsite configuration, the virutalhost file is going to be simple and only point to the site's root directory

~$ sudo vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/website.com.conf
add:
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName website.com
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/website.com/
        TransferLog /var/log/httpd/website.com-access_log
        ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/website.com-error_log
</VirtualHost>