Before you begin this guide, there are some important steps that you need to complete on your server.
We will be proceeding through these steps as a non-root user with sudo privileges, so you will need to have one available. You can find out how to create a user with sudo privileges by following steps 1-4 in our Ubuntu 14.04 initial server setup guide.
Additionally, you’ll need to have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack installed on your VPS instance. If you don’t have these components already installed and configured, you can use this guide to learn how to install LAMP on Ubuntu 14.04.
When you are finished with these steps, you can continue with this guide.
Step One — Create a MySQL Database and User for WordPress The first step that we will take is a preparatory one. WordPress uses a relational database to manage and store site and user information
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When you create a new Droplet, select “One Click Apps” and then select “Wordpress”.
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