How to Setup WordPress on the Raspberry Pi

In this Raspberry Pi WordPress tutorial, you will learn how to set up the popular CMS on your Raspberry Pi.

I currently have WordPress running on my Raspberry Pi to act as a development server as it’s faster than using something like XAMPP.

Setting up WordPress on the Raspberry Pi is not hugely complicated. Once you have Apache, PHP, and the MYSQL server set up, it is smooth sailing.

Before you go too far ahead in this tutorial, make sure that you have your MYSQL root password ready. We will be running through the steps to setting up a database for WordPress and showing you how to set up an SQL user to interact with the database all by using the MYSQL Command line.

If you’re interested then now is the time to set up WordPress on the Raspberry Pi.
Equipment List

Below are all the bits and pieces that I made use of for this Raspberry Pi WordPress tutorial.
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Raspberry Pi 2, 3 or 4
Micro SD Card
Power Supply
Ethernet Cord or Wifi dongle (The Pi 3 and 4 has WiFi inbuilt)
Setting up WordPress on a Raspberry Pi
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Before you start this tutorial make sure you have set up Apache and PHP. You will also need to have an MYSQL server running and accessible. As I mentioned earlier, you will need to have your MYSQL root password ready.

1. To start, we need to download and extract WordPress to our “/var/www/html” directory on our Raspberry Pi.

We will also need to take ownership of the “/var/www/html” folder with the “www-data” user and group. Doing this will allow PHP to process WordPress without running into any permission errors.

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