WordPress NGINX Sample

This is a sample WordPress website with an included configuration for both PHP and NGINX.

Server Requirements

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• nginx/1.23.0
  • headers-more-nginx-module
  • ngx_brotli
  • ngx_devel_kit
  • set-misc-nginx-module
• PHP 8.1
  • php-fpm
• mysql Ver 8.0.29 Distrib 5.7.33
• certbot 1.21.0

How to use

NGINX

Install NGINX and add the following modules to your installation:

• HTTPS://github.com/openresty/headers-more-nginx-module
• HTTPS://github.com/google/ngx_brotli
• HTTPS://github.com/vision5/ngx_devel_kit
• HTTPS://github.com/openresty/set-misc-nginx-module

Replace every occurrence of wordpress.sample in nginx/sites/wordpress.conf with yourdomain.com

Generating DH parameters:

mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl/
cd /etc/nginx/ssl/
sudo openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 4096

Issuing certificates:

sudo apt install certbot -y
certbot certonly -d yourdomain.com --standalone
certbot certonly -d www.yourdomain.com --standalone

PHP

Install PHP 7.4 and Composer.

Create the session folder for PHP-FPM:

mkdir -p /usr/share/nginx/sites/wordpress/tmp/session

Create a new user for the WordPress installation:

adduser --no-create-home --disabled-login --disabled-password wordpress

WordPress

Install Bedrock in the /usr/share/nginx/sites/wordpress/ directory and add the required WordPress plugins:

composer require roots/soil
composer require wpackagist-plugin/wordpress-seo
composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-optimize
composer require wpackagist-plugin/wp-super-cache

Configure the WP Super Cache plugin by adding:

/**
 * WP Super Cache
 */
Config::define("WP_CACHE", env("WP_CACHE") ?: false);
Config::define("WPCACHEHOME", $root_dir . "/web/app/plugins/wp-super-cache/");

to your config/application.php file and WP_CACHE your to .env file:

WP_CACHE=true

WP CLI

Setup WP CLI and install WordPress:

alias wp='wp --allow-root'

wp core install \
	--title="Sample" \
	--admin_user="Administrator" \
	--admin_password="Administrator" \
	--admin_email="[email protected]" \
	--url="HTTPS://WordPress.Sample" \
	--skip-email

# Update permalink structure.
wp option update permalink_structure "/%postname%/" --skip-themes --skip-plugins
wp rewrite structure "/%postname%/"

wp plugin activate soil
wp plugin activate wordpress-seo
wp plugin activate wp-optimize
wp plugin activate wp-super-cache

Result