Install WordPress on Azure VM

This video walks you through the steps required to create an Azure VM and install WordPress on the VM. WordPress is a very popular open-source CMS. People use WordPress to create their own websites, blogs or manage their content portals. It is based on PHP and MySQL. You can extend it with thousands of free plugins and themes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0. Create Azure VM and open port 80 on it. 1. Download WordPress gzipped archive to your local machine. 2. Transfer the archive to the remote Azure VM using scp command ssh to the remote Azure VM. 3. Run the commands to install Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP. 4. Create the directory (/srv/www) for placing WordPress application files 5. Untar the archive and move the dir to /srv/www/ 6. Create the conf file for Apache WordPress site sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf 7. Copy the virtual host settings 8. Enable the site and then run this command: sudo service apache2 reload 9. Configure the MySQL for WordPress application DB 10. Visit the public IP of the VM from your browser to complete WordPress setup.