Type y when asking “Do you want to install aaPanel to the /www directory now?(y/n): ” and wait until you get this screen in your terminal
Open aaPanel Internal Address in the browser and login using username and password showing in the terminal aaPanel Internal Address is like this : http://YOUR-VPS-IP:8888/RANDOMCODE/
Install LNMP by ticking check box on Nginx, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin and uncheck Pure-Ftpd because we don’t needed at this time, choose method Fast and click One-click button to start the installation. I use the following version: Nginx 1.19, MySQL 5.7, PHP 7.3, phpMyAdmin 5.0
Installation will take some time, you can go grab some coffe and snack while waiting the installation finish
After successfully installed, go to App Store by clicking App Store menu on the left pane, and click Installed menu button Click switch button to green in Display on Dashboard to show all the installed software on Dashboard
Setup Wordpress Site
Go to Site Manager by clicking Website menu on the left pane and click Add Site button to create new site for wordpress
On the Add site window type YOURDOMAIN.COM for wordpress in domain input box, for example mine was wordpress.blogdoang.com, you can also check Add [www.yourdomain.com] domain name to the main domain name to add www or leave it uncheck.
Leave other setting default and make sure to leave Apply for SSL and HTTP redirect to HTTPS is unchecked, we will generate SSL and redirect later
After site is created, Point your domain A record to VPS IP Address
I use cloudflare, so in cloudflare dashboard go to DNS and add A record like the following setting, make sure Proxy Status is DNS only or Grey color because we will generate SSL for the domain other wise SSL generate will fail
Now setting URL Rewrite for wordpress, in Site Manager Aapanel click Conf and click URL rewrite menu and then choose wordpress then click save button
Click SSL and on Let’s Encrypt tab choose File verification for Verification Mode and tick Select All check box and then click Apply button to generate SSL certificate
After SSL certificate successfully generated, click switch button on Force HTTPS
Now lets create database for wordpress installation, click Databases on left pane menu and in Database Manager page click Add database button for creating new database
Fill in DBname, Username, Password and make sure to save the details because we need it for wordpress installation later, leave other setting default.
Installing Wordpress
On Site Manager page and click Root directory to go to website root directory
In root directory, select all files and delete
Download latest wordpress installation by clicking Remote download button and paste this link https://wordpress.org/latest.zip to URL address and click Confirm button
Extract latest.zip file by clicking Unzip and confirm, after that delete file latest.zip
Move all content inside wordpress folder to site root directory by clicking wordpress folder and select all files and directory and then click Cut
Click back button to back to root directory
And then click Paste button
So the final directory will look like this
Don’t forget to delete wordpress folder.
Go to https://YOURDOMAIN.com, click Continue and click Let’s go and then fill in Database name, username, password with database detail you created earlier.
Click submit then click Run the installation button, and install wordpress like usual.
