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WordPress Installation Failed

I am trying to install Wordpress on Lubuntu. I followed the instructions here. Including PHP Apache and MySQL setups. Apache and MySQL appear to be running fine. However, when I go to http://...
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Setting up SFTP to log in to server with Filezilla and access files outside my home directory

I have an ec2 instance on AWS which already installed a few Wordpress-es in it. I want to set things up to let more people handle their own projects, with me also being able to go into the server ...
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How to set up a local Wordpress site?

I want to create a site based on Wordpress that is only accessible from my own machine (localhost). In other words, I do not want my computer to be a server. I just want it to have all the files ...
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16.04: Problem installing LAMP and wordpress

ok I have followed the following guide: http://computerbeginnersguides.com/blog/2016/05/12/install-and-configure-wordpress-on-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-xerus/ But, every time I go to the localhost it says "...
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How to update/upgrade PHP 7.2 to latest version safely?

I am running a WordPress website over LEMP stack server on Ubuntu 18.04 on DigitalOcean. WordPress is recommending me to update my PHP to the latest version. I am running PHP 7.2.17; Please tell me ...
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How to Setup FTP to use in locally hosted wordpress

I have installed wordpress on my ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition and I am trying to install plugin from the browser (I know I can drop it to the wp-content/plugin but I want to do it via the web browser ...
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Delete all files whose filenames contain a particular string?

I changed my wordpress theme. The older one created so much images on server. My new theme doesnt need them, so I want to remove all. How can I do that? For example: Default image: ...
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Giving ownership of the directory to the apache user? [duplicate]

I have installed wordpress on LAMP. As I am new one to Ubuntu. So, I Used this online tutorial How to install wordpress on ubuntu manually But when I am trying to give ownership of the directory to ...
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Is it possible to restore a mysql database from the /var/lib/mysql/database folder?

Due to a nightmare that somehow became real, my mysql installation ended up being reinstalled. I couldn't start mysql before the reinstall, so I couldn't use mysqldump to do a proper backup. I did ...
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What's the recommended way to install Wordpress from packages on a server?

I've got a LAMP server available from http://91.xxx.xx.xx/ (just an example IP address), and I'd like to install Wordpress there. I've gone as far as doing a simple sudo apt-get install wordpress to ...
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Wordpress deployed with JUJU using LXC fail

When I deploy the wordpress and mysql charms with juju on my maas controller like so: juju deploy --to lxc:0 wordpress juju deploy --to lxc:0 mysql juju add-relation wordpress:db mysql:db --debug ...
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How do I configure Wordpress to update automatically?

I installed apache2, mysql, php5 and phpmyadmin Now i moved my old Wordpress installtion from my htdocs Folder under Windows in my /var/www/ Folder under Ubuntu. Now, when i want to update some of ...
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Install wordpress Ubuntu problem

I have wordpress already install but when I put this link http://localhost/wordpress/ i see script file : <?php /** * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads ...
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How to configure sSMTP to send emails to more than one email address?

I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Bash, Nginx, and sSMTP. On this environment I have 2 or more WordPress apps. The basic configuration of sSMTP allows it to route WordPress contact form emails from one app, ...
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Can't access some websites using Ubuntu 13.10

Something's wrong with Ubuntu. Since I've upgraded to 13.10, I can't access some websites for no apparent reason. I've tried everything imaginable to solve this problem : Made sure that MTUs are ...
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Upgraded Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04, hangs on boot, can use recovery mode but unclear what's actually broken [duplicate]

I'm attempting a manual upgrade of a Vagrant VM box (of the WordPress dev environment VVV, which uses ubuntu/trusty64) from 14.04 (14.04.5 LTS I think...) to 16.04.2 LTS. This is the second time I've ...
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Cannot log into MySQL

I have a very common problem with my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/MySQL 5.7.18/WordPress running on a Digital Ocean droplet with 2 CPU, 40GB SSD and 16GB RAM. The droplet is only running one site and has hardly ...
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MySQL Server keep shutting down

mysql server is keep shutting down, i am using DigitalOcean 512 MB Memory and 20GB Disk. I am running WordPress and iRedMail. Here are my Error Logs: Version: '5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1' socket: '/var/...
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Wordpress does not create directories?

First I will just tell you how my wordpress hierarchy looks like: /var/www has all of the wordpress files, which is different from how it is normally set up as /var/www/wordpress (symlinked to /usr/...
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Easy installation of wordpress? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What’s the easiest way to set up a LAMP stack? I am wordpress theme and website developer. back in windows i use WAMP server to access and develop themes in wordpress now in ...
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