I've tried to load Wordpress on Ubuntu 16.04 about 15 times. I've tried a variety of instructions to do this but I haven't gotten it to work. I've also reloaded the OS to make sure that I have a clean copy each time I try a new set of instructions.

Apparently there are two ways to load Wordpress.

1. Install Wordpress with apt get which installs it as an application.
2. Download Wordpress and extract the files. Copy them to the /var/www/html directory.

I make changes to the apache2.conf as per instructions, setup a database for Wordpress with username, password etc. I then copy the Wordpress files into /var/www/html. Instead of getting the Wordpress website, I continue to get the apache website.

Does anyone have a complete, step by step instuctions to install Wordpress on Ubuntu 16.04 so that Wordpress works as a web site?

I've installed an older version on Ubuntu 12.01 before which worked so I believe I know the basics.

Thanks,

Phillip