Boost your WordPress site with OpenLiteSpeed
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WordPress lets you build professional websites without needing to know how to code thanks to its user-friendly interface, a huge library of themes and plugins, and built-in search engine optimization features.
Getting WordPress running on an Ubuntu 22.04 server with the OpenLiteSpeed [1] is a great way to launch a fast, optimized website. OpenLiteSpeed is an open source web server made for speed and security. It's a lightweight alternative to Apache that can seriously boost the performance of WordPress installs [2].
What's Here for You?
In this beginner-friendly guide, I'll walk you step-by-step through how to install WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on Ubuntu 22.04. I'll cover how to:
- Get OpenLiteSpeed up and running on Ubuntu
- Set up the MySQL database
- Set up PHP
- Download WordPress
- Tweak WordPress settings to work with OpenLiteSpeed
- Install WordPress
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