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Michael Heap, Ansible, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1659-0_3

3. Installing WordPress

Michael Heap

(1)Reading, Berkshire, UK

Now that you’re familiar with setting up an environment in which to develop your Ansible playbooks, we’re going to put together a playbook that downloads and configures WordPress , a popular open-source blogging application.

Installing WordPress

WordPress ( http://wordpress.org/ ) is a popular open-source tool that is developed in PHP with a MySQL database as its data store. To deploy a working instance of WordPress, you need a PHP version that is newer than PHP 5.2, a web server, and a MySQL install.

In this chapter, we’ll install all of the required dependencies, fetch the WordPress source files from their release ...

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