Install WordPress on LAMP

WordPress is the most popular CMS (Content Management System), allowing you to quickly set up blogs and websites on top of a MariaDB backend with PHP processing. After setup, almost all administration can be done through the web frontend. In this guide, we’ll focus on getting a WordPress instance set up on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and PHP) on your server. Choose your operating system below to get started.

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