Setup Raspbian
Once you have your Raspberry Pi setup and plugged in, turn the power switch on via wall socket (there is no on/off switch for the Pi) and look for the boot up screen which resembles a Debian-like boot up process. Debian will automatically expand the filesystem and reboot. After the reboot sequence has finished, you should now be looking at the login prompt
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- Note* Use the Arrow keys to move up and down, use Enter key to select/confirm, use Tab key to select Cancel or Finish
- Select Change User Password then Enter, type a strong password, then confirm
- Select Hostname, Ok to alert prompt, then type lamp for hostname (or anything you want) then Ok
- Select Interfacing Options, select SSH, then Yes to enable, then Ok
- On Home Screen, hit Tab key until the <Finish> item is selected, hit Enter to reboot
- You Raspberry Pi is now configured
Teme says
I tried this but it didn’t work or everything else seems to work but wordpress…booking in the wp doesn’t work for me althoug I quite sure I fill all fields as they shoud. I tried also manualy configurate wp but that didn’t work either. Maybe I try to remove wp user and db and create those again.
Richie says
Hi Teme, most likely a folder permission/ownership issue or incorrect database details. Make sure you run
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/*after downloading and unzipping WordPress, and double check your database details. If you’re unsure, try creating a new database and user, login to mysql:mysql -uroot -p'MyPassword'then…
create database wordpress2;
create user 'wordpress2'@'localhost' indentified by 'MyPassword';
grant all privileges on wordpress2.* to 'wordpress2'@'localhost';
flush privileges;
exit;
See how you go and let me know if you have success.
cheers!
Richie
Alan says
Where can I locate the location of the php.ini so I can edit the file? Thank you so much for the great tutorial!
Richie says
Hi Alan, no worries glad you liked the tutorial! As we’re using Apache’s build-in PHP processor
libapache2-mod-phpthe location of thephp.iniis/etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.inibut it will depend on which version of PHP you’re running, so replace the7.2with your version. Runcd /etc/phpand then thedircommand to see what version you have installed.Cheers!
Richie
Heath Knight says
Many thanks Richie,
This is exactly the way the internet should be…. knowledge sharing at its best. You have enabled me to acomplish a pretty challenging task (for an old duffer like me) setting up LAMP on the Pi, I am a bit uncertain of what exactly WordPress does, but at least it is now parked on my Pi as I progress setting up the webserver.
One comment for Pi newbies… don’t forget to make a disk image backup of that fragile little SD card after doing all this.
Richie says
Thanks Heath, glad you enjoyed the tutorial. WordPress is basically a publishing platform, think of it like Word for the web 🙂 You might also be interested in learning more about PHP? If so I can highly recommend Brad Traversy’s free YouTube course PHP Front to Back. Cheers! Richie
ITSP says
Hi,
Thank you very much for this tutorial.
i just have an issue with public IP that wordpress plugin installation error and ask for ftp login details. when i put login detail it says login failed.
please help me…
Thank you.
Richie says
Hi there, no probs. Did you change ownership of the entire html folder to www-data? You’ll need to enter the following:
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/htmland then retry installing the WordPress plugin. Let me know how you go mate.cheers!
Richie
R C says
This is great. Thanks for the thorough guide!
However, somewhere around this part it is failing:
“We also need to add user pi to the www-data group, give ownership of the /var/www folder to www-data user and group, change user pi’s home folder to same, and loosen some permissions on the /var/www folder”
the second usermod command, I was getting “the user pi is in use by process: XXX”. So I attempted to boot into the CLI instead to see if I could get it complete the command, I figured perhaps the GUI was causing an issue, as it seems most of this guide is written with CLI /lite installs in mind.
it still does not complete that command.
Do you have any idea why?
Richie says
Howdy RC, thanks for the feedback mate. the error: “the user pi is in use by process: XXX” is usually because you’re not logged in as root, so be sure to
suand enter root password. Let me know how that goes and will update the guide. cheers, RichiePhill says
I’m having the same issue and getting the same error message (“the user pi is in use”). I saw this comment regarding logging in as root as followed that another tutorial for logging in as root because I had never done it before and didn’t know what the password was.
Anyways I logged in as root and was able to complete the command (sudo usermod -m -d /var/www pi). When I log back in as “pi” and run all 4 commands in that section they all appear to go through, however “sudo usermod -m -d /var/www pi” returns the message “No Changes” rather than “the user pi is in use”.
I thought everything had worked, but I still can’t log in to the pia via FTP/Filezilla. The settings match what is in the tutorial, but Filezilla tells me “Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server”.
I’m definitely a beginner level with most of this and just wanted to try learning PHP and MySQL. If there’s more information I can provide I’ll be happy to if I know how to get it.
Richie says
Hi Phill, thanks for letting me know this, I have fixed the issue by creating a new user called piftp as it seems too difficult to alter user pi while logged in as pi, and I didn’t want to use the nuclear option of logging in as root. I have run through the entire tutorial again and all works 100% now, perhaps you could confirm this for me buy running through it again? cheers! Richie
harrison says
Hey Richie! Thank you so much for the incredible guide! Just got my first pi 3 and am having a similar issue even with the updated guide using piftp instead of pi. Im still not able to ftp into my pi and get the ECONNREFUSED error. Any idea??
Richie says
Hi Harrison, no worries at all 🙂 I went through the guide again with a fresh install of Raspbian Buster and it all works ok on my end. Usually this happens because of the FTP client settings, are you using Filezila? And with the following settings?
Also check out the FileZilla network config page and try some of the suggestions there. Let me know how you go. cheers! Richie
Kenneth H says
awesome tutorial !
everything worked perfect, untill i installed wordpress.
after i Enter database details and then click Submit, i get this error
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?
If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.
i am 100% sure i enter the right username and password.
what could the problem be, and how can i fix it ?
Richie says
Hi Kenneth, thanks mate. This error means that either one or more of the following is incorrect: db username, db password, db host (which should be localhost). When you entered the code to create the database user:
create user 'wordpress'@'localhost' identified by '[enter password]';did you enter password without the brackets? like this:create user 'wordpress'@'localhost' identified by 'abc123';? If you’re unsure, create a new database and user as follows:Then enter username: wordpress2, password: abc123, database name: wordpress2, host: localhost, db prefix: wp_ and see if that works mate.
Let me know how you go.
cheers
Richie
Kenneth H says
that did the trick 🙂
thank you ! and sorry for my noob mistake
Richie says
No worries at all mate, cheers, Richie
Richie says
Please Note* This guide has been fully updated (2018-01-30) to reflect the changes to MySQL in Raspbian “Stretch” version 9.x, which has caused a lot of the code to break. There are a few different aspects to how we create databases in that we run MySQL with the sudo prefix instead of logging in as root. Also, all code is now written to conform to the Linux sudo system which greatly increases security.
Let me know if you have any issues with the new code and instructions, but I think you’ll find it all works far better now.
Cheers!
Richie
Angelo says
Thanks alot for the guide. Please note that default phpmyadmin login details are: phpmyadmin with the password that you provided in the setup prompt.
orthodoxcumbriawebmaster says
I think something has changed in the way phpmyadmin is set up, I have tried several tutorials without success. I can log in as phpmyadmin, but then can’t create a new database (no privileges), and root access is denied:
#1698 – Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’
mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1698): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’
Googling for a solution offers many, but there is no trace of AllowRootLogin in any of the configuration files……
I’ve done this many times on other machines, but this has be stumped.
Richie says
Hi Richard, yes it’s actually MySQL that has changed and now does not allow root login via phpmyadmin interface. But you can fix this issue by following this guide: https://askubuntu.com/questions/763336/cannot-enter-phpmyadmin-as-root-mysql-5-7
Let me know how you go mate.
cheers!
Richie
Joshua says
Hi Richie,
Thanks for putting this tutorial together! I was going through the steps using Raspbian 9.3 and encountered a problem with http:///phpmyadmin/ similar to Michu after completing the phpmyadmin install instructions above. I corrected the 404 not found by including an extra step:
nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
At the bottom of the file append:
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
Save and quit, then restart the service:
service apache2 restart
These steps made the phpmyadmin web interface login available.
Richie says
Hi Joshua, thanks for the info. The issue is due to Debian changing the default MySQL engine from MySQL to MariaDB in version 9.x which is why I link directly to version 8.x Jessie in the guide. I will have to update the guide to reflect these change as soon as I can.
cheers
Richie
Michu says
Hi Richie
Thanks for the great tutorial!
I can’t access the phpmyadmin site… how can I delete it on the raspberry to install it again?
Richie says
Hi Michu, are you sure you put in the right web address? Remember you need to find the Raspberry Pi IP address with
ifconfigORip addressto find your IP address, then enter http://[ip-address]/phpmyadmin/ so be sure you try that first.If you still want to uninstall PHPMyAdmin, login as root and enter the following code on line at a time:
dpkg -P phpmyadmin
rm -f /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
service apache2 restart
Cheers!
Richie
Angel says
Thank you very much for this tutorial.
During the Install MySQL you mention “note* that you will be asked to enter and confirm a root password during the installation process”, this is not my case the process it doesn’t request MySQL password.
Late in the Setup WordPress Database request the above password, but I don’t know.
“Login to MySQL as root using the same MySQL root password we entered when installing it earlier”
Could you please tell me how to get the root MySQL password in your installation process?
Richie says
Hi Angel, apparently Debian/Raspbian now has MariaDB as the default database instead of MySQL engine. This has made the setup slightly different in that no root password is given. Basically, instead of using the old
-u root -pcommand you simply usesudo mysqlor if you’re already logged in as root just typemysqlto bring up the interface. AFAIK MariaDB has no root password making it impossible to actually login as root as a security measure, you need to login with a user that has lower permissions (ie. user of a particular database) or follow this guide on how to give root as password.Let me know how you go.
cheers!
Richie
Tevis C says
I think a great addition to this would be to include a web IDE like Codiad into the tutorial. It allows a new user to get into the web development without getting too deep into setting up an IDE in Linux. This also allows allows the user to code their web page from other devices. I built a WAMP + Codiad + phpMyAdmin and will try to build the same on my R-Pi.
Richie says
I would love to do many more RPi tutorials, time is the factor 😉 cheers, Richie
Scott J says
My bad…. I missed it…. you have a link to FileZilla in the section just above where I jumped to…. thank you!
Scott J says
I think this tutorial is great, and I’m using it this evening to learn about LAMP servers and about my RPi 3. I’m basically new to Linux and while not “new car smell” new, I’m wondering how exactly you envision connecting SFTP? Just since i’m playing around, I figure the SSH-FTP route would be the way to go, but not sure how I’m supposed to use connection data. Are you suggesting using WinSCP or similar which takes the IP address, port, protocol, login, and password? I’m just not clear how that login process is supposed to happen. I’ll dig around on your site some more, but how you’re intending us to apply that information is unclear (I have a guess on some options, but your intention might be easier than what else I might try). Still, I greatly appreciate the post!
Richie says
Hi Scott, thanks for your question and feedback. In this tutorial I give two ways to connect to your RPi; (1) via SSH-FTP (SFTP) which is a bit dangerous as you’ll login as root and have access to entire filesystem or (2) install and setup VSFTPD then login using FTPS which is the better option. The client for both connection types is PuTTY, but any FTP client should do. FTPS is FTP over a secure SSL or TLS encrypted connection, whereas SFTP or SSH-FTP is data transfer over the SSH connection. The reason I recommend FTPS is you can lock-down the folder access to just the
/var/wwwfolder, whereas the SSH-FTP gives access to the entire filesystem, I realize I could have created a separate Linux user, but it’s difficult to lock down to the/var/wwwfolder, and permissions are a nightmare. Cheers! RichieScott J says
Thank you Richie. The precaution of using VSFTPD makes sense both in your reply above, and in the main article for the security reasons you cited. For my purposes, which is just trying it out at home, the SSH-FTP route is just fine, but I understand your point and its validity.
One more point, which I think I have right and I’ll make here for anyone passing this way that momentarily is confused on that last section: Although you’re saying to use root for login after changing the sshd_config file, root is not enabled by default on Debian (which Raspbian is based) distributions. You would need to enable the root account, which is not covered in the procedure above.
Richie says
Hi Scott, yes VSFTPD is the better/safer option. I actually do go through changing the
AllowRootLogin without-passwordtoAllowRootLogin yesunder the “Login to FTP as Root User” section, but you may not have read it as you went down the VSFTPD path 😉 Cheers, Richie