Time to install the LAMP stack and everything else WordPress needs. Redis will help speed up your site with caching later on and Cloudflare will get you online. You could setup ssh but I didn’t bother and just pasted all these commands into the LXC console (login as root):

apt update && apt upgrade -y

One long command that should install everything you need (this took 3min):

sudo apt install -y apache2 mysql-server php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-gd php-curl php-dom php-imagick php-mbstring php-zip php-intl redis php-redis php8.3 php8.3-cli php8.3-common php8.3-curl php8.3-mbstring php8.3-zip php8.3-intl php8.3-xml wget

Now install WordPress:

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzf latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress/* /var/www/html/
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html

Configure SQL:

mysql -u root -p
//Enter root password

Create database [change usr/pass]:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER 'USRNAME'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWD';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'USRNAME'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Configure WordPress [change usr/pass]:

mv /var/www/html/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/wp-config.php

nano /var/www/html/wp-config.php

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');
define('DB_USER', 'USRNAME');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'PASSWD');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

//CTRL+X, Y, Enter

Setup Apache2:

sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

Paste this into the file and save:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Apply Apache Changes:

sudo a2ensite wordpress.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Change fields in the PHP configuration:

nano /etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini

// In Resource Limits // (or press CTRL+F and type "memory_limit")!
memory_limit = 1024M

// In Data Handling //
post_max_size = 8192M

// In File Uploads //
upload_max_filesize = 8192M

Apply the config:

sudo service apache2 restart

//to see your IP:
ip a

Now open a browser and navigate to your container’s IP to install WordPress!