Steps to build a personal blog using WordPress using HTTPS

WordPress Complete Guide to Building a Personal Blog

Overview

I have built my own blog in the past few days, using WordPress

Because I want to get https, but the online tutorials are not that comprehensive. At the same time, after finishing it, I also found that most of the online methods for enabling https in WordPress are too complicated and unnecessary, so I will share the process of building it here

Preparation work

Needless to mention a server

Domain name, I pointed a second-level domain name to the directory where the blog is located, which is the ssl after blog.xujifa.cn The certificates are directly given to this second-level domain name

Installation process

1. Database

Install mariadb, of course the same is true for mysql

You can use this Commandsudo yum install mariadb mariadb-server

After setting the password and so on, log in to the database

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;CREATE USER wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpressuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

and set the name and so on as you like.

2. Apache and PHP

Install apache: sudo yum install httpd mod_ssl mod_rewrite

Install php: sudo yum install php php- mysql

Start apache: sudo apachectl start, when you need to restart in the future, sudo apachectl restart

3. Download WordPress

The latest version is 4.7.1. It is strongly recommended to use the English version. There was a problem with the interface after I first started using the Chinese version. I am not sure if it is the fault of the Chinese version, but there is one thing. The English version will be faster than the Chinese version. There are a lot of them, I don’t know why, it’s just metaphysical.

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Then move this to the /var/www/html/ directory

Unzip

tar -xzvf lastest.tar.gz

and then change the user of the folder to apache

sudo chown -R apache /var/www/html/

Problem:

If you encounter themes and plug-ins that cannot be downloaded while using WordPress and are prompted to require an ftp username and password, try re-running the above authorization Command

Then stop for a while and let https be done before moving on to wordpress. This may be better

4. Https

is issued by Let's Encrypt Free certificate, it provides a tool called certbot to help issue certificates. After the following operation

sudo yum install python-certbot-apachesudo certbot --apche

, you will be asked to fill in the URL, which is

but it should be noted that there are 90 seconds after the certificate. With a validity period of days, certbot also supports automatic renewal. Execute the following command

sudo certbot renew --dry-run

At this time, when you access your own website through https, you will find that there is a green lock.

If your blog is not placed in the root directory, for example, I hope

https://blog.xujifa.cn

points to /var/www/html/blog, then you need a little bit Additional operations.

certbot will generate the ssl.conf file under /etc/httpd/conf.d/, find < in this file VirtualHost _default\_:443> This tag will have the DocumentRoot attribute underneath it. Uncomment it and change its value to the path you need, restart httpd, and that's it.

Now our website should be accessible through http and https, which is a bit overwhelming. We hope that http can be directed to https. We installed at the same time when installing httpd. mod_rewrite module, now is the time to use it.

Open the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file, find the <Document "/var/www/html"> tag, and download it AllowOverride None was changed to AllowOverride All.

Then create a file named .htaccess in your blog directory (the path we decompressed in the third step) and add the following content.

RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ 
RewriteRule ^.*$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

5. Continue to install WordPress

In the third step, we unzipped WordPress in the /var/www/html/ directory, enter the directory, and find wp-config-example.php file, rename it to wp-config.php and modify the information about the database (or you can also set it through the web page in the following steps) , and add these two sentences to set https

define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);
define('FORCE_SSL_LOGIN', true);

Since WordPress uses Google to provide some resources such as fonts, which are blocked, it also needs to be changed to domestic sources. Here we use 360 ​​to provide resources, open wp-includes/script-loader.php, and replace all googleapis inside with useso.

6. Start using

Access our blog through a browser, set the database information on the first page (you will skip it if you have already completed it in the previous step), and then Set your own username and password) and you can start using it.

That’s the main content of this blog. If I didn’t miss anything, the above steps should be enough.

If there are any questions in the article or something is unclear, please leave a message and I will reply as soon as possible.

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