WordPress is one of the most popular open-source CMS (Content Management System) on the internet. It allows the user to easily manage and set up websites, blogs, and e-commerce stores, etc. It uses MySQL or MariaDB backend with PHP processing. In this article, we explain how to install WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04.

Prerequisites

• A non-root user account with sudo privileges
• You have Nginx installation and host your site with Nginx
• You have to install MySQL too.

Creating a MySQL database

WordPress uses the MySQL database as a backend to store data. So, the first step is to create a database for your WordPress site using the below command