By robmetras
The major requirements of WP Twin are as follows:
- system() and exec() PHP functions should be allowed to run on the server.
- zip, unzip, mysql, mysqldump, grep, and sed have to be available commands on the server.
- The UID that scripts run under has to have rights to write files.
- The mySQL database user has to have FULL rights to the database.
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If you care about performance, you want to stay away from DigitalOcean’s WordPress One-click Install; and go with Nginx, instead. <br> <br>To answer your question: DigitalOcean provides you with a server with root access. If something is available on the Ubuntu OS, it’s available on DigitalOcean.
Your probably better off manually installing Wordpress on the droplet. <br> <br>But to answer your question, since you have root privileges to your VPS all thews requirements should be available to you.
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