Raspberry Pi: Host Blogging Website with WordPress

With episode 5 of the Raspberry Pi video series, I'll show you how easy it is to build a basic blog and host the site on your Raspberry Pi. I also cover how you can make your website public on the internet so anyone can reach it using your IP address! This is part two of the process of hosting an entire website on your Raspberry Pi. If you haven't yet installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL on your Raspberry Pi, please watch my previous video: https://youtu.be/OBbTkBy2blI --- Highlights --- 0:00:56 - Downloading WordPress 0:03:32 - Setup Blog Database 0:04:34 - WordPress Installation 0:06:51 - How to Access Blog & WordPress Usage 0:09:05 - How to Host Blog on Internet (Make Your IP Public) --- Commands Used --- Change Directory to Public HTML: cd /var/www/html Create blog folder: sudo mkdir blog Get WordPress Package: sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz Unzip Tarball Package: sudo tar xzf latest.tar.gz Move WordPress Contents: sudo mv wordpress/* . Remove Unused Files: sudo rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz Grant Apache User Access: sudo chown -R www-data: . Start MySQL Session: sudo mysql 'Create WordPress DB' Query: CREATE DATABASE wordpress; 'DB Privileges' Query: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURPASSWORD'; --- Links --- WordPress Package: http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz #RaspberryPI