Virtual machine running multiple wordperss installations

Posted On September 20, 2016

This is how we would setup virtual machine running multiple wordperss installations. In some cases we want to create dedicated vm for running strictly wordpress. This is not a secure deployment and better suited for development environment. For production installation would have to be hardened and some sort of HIDS should be in place.

1. Start virtual machine from template as specified in other tutorials.
2. Change name of your vm to hostname of your choice

#hostnamectl set-hostname myhost.domain

3. Run update to get all the latest updates

#yum update -y

WordPress depends on LAMP stack – php, apache, mysql, linux so lets install LAMP stack on our vm.
4. Install LAMP

yum install httpd
systemctl enable httpd.service
systemctl start httpd
yum install mariadb-server mariadb
systemctl start mariadb
mysql_secure_installation
systemctl enable mariadb.service
yum install php php-mysql

5. Set up virtual hosts so we can run several name based websites on same server with separate wordpress installs.

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80

Now create file /etc/httpd/conf.d/sites.conf with your virtual sites information

    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/site1"
    ServerName site1.com
    ServerAlias www.site1.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/site1/error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/site1/access.log combined



    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/site2"
    ServerName site2.com
    ServerAlias www.site2.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/site2/error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/site2/access.log combined

6. Install phpmyadmin

yum install epel-release
yum install phpmyadmin

edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
Change lines that says require ip 127.0.0.1 to your ip address or addresses like this x.x.x.x y.y.y.y

#systemctl restart httpd

You can access it by going to http://hostname/phpmyadmin

7. Download wordpress 4.6.1 (currently the latest version)

yum install wget
cd /root
wget https://wordpress.org/wordpress-4.6.1.zip

8. At this point all you need to do is unzip wordpress and create database. Follow your normal wordpress installation procedure