WordPress on Ubuntu 24.04 LOMP

This playbook will install a WordPress website on top of a LOMP environment (Linux, OpenLiteSpeed, MySQL and PHP) on an Ubuntu machine. A virtualhost will be created with the options specified in the vars/default.yml variable file.

Running this Playbook

1. Install Ansible

1. Install ansible on center server

apt update && apt install ansible -y

2. Add SSH key to the client server so center server can ssh in without password

2. Obtain the playbook

Download the git repo

git clone https://github.com/Code-Egg/ansible-lomp-wp.git
cd ansible-lomp-wp

3. Customize Options

Update example.com from inventory to your client server's domain/IP

vim inventory

Update SQL, Domain, Port from vars/default.yml

vim vars/default.yml

---
# System Settings
owner: www-data
group: www-data

#PHP Settings
php_version: "83"
php_dversion: "8.3"
php_opt_modules: [ 'lsphp{{ php_version }}-curl', 'lsphp{{ php_version }}-imagick', 'lsphp{{ php_version }}-intl', 'lsphp{{ php_version }}-opcache', 'lsphp{{ php_version }}-memcached', 'lsphp{{ php_version }}-tidy' ]
php_memory_limit: "256"
php_max_execution_time: "60"
php_upload_max_filesize: "256M"
php_post_max_size: "256M"

#MySQL Settings
mysql_root_password: "mysql_root_password"
mysql_db: "wordpress"
mysql_user: "egguser"
mysql_password: "password"

#HTTP Settings
http_host: "your_domain"
http_port: "80"
https_port: "443"
doc_root: "/var/www/{{ http_host }}"
ssl_key: "/usr/local/lsws/admin/conf/webadmin.key"
ssl_crt: "/usr/local/lsws/admin/conf/webadmin.crt"

4. Run ansible playbook

ansible-playbook playbook.yml