# How to spin up a Wordpress installation?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 11, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spin-up-a-wordpress-installation/737302 "2015-11-11T17:29:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spin-up-a-wordpress-installation/737302/1 "2015-11-11T17:29:23Z")

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We currently host a bunch of independent, Wordpress-based brochureware sites with a 3rd party hosting company and we would like to move that to one of our servers. I am trying to gauge how hard it is to spin up a Wordpress server on, I believe, a CentOS VM. Is there a turnkey solution to getting the server up and running or do we have to install and configure a web server and MySQL instance separately and install Wordpress on that?

Thanks,  
Rob

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**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-spin-up-a-wordpress-installation/737302/2 "2015-11-11T18:14:03Z")

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Maybe something like the Bitnami stack installer is what you want?

> **[WordPress](https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress)**
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> WordPress is one of the world’s most popular web publishing platforms for building blogs and websites. It can be customized via a wide selection of themes, extensions and plug-ins.

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Where it gets really complicated is if you wanted to host multiple Wordpress sites on a single server. You can either set up a lot of MySQL DBs (or at least tables) and set up a lot of Apache vhosts, or maybe you can run a bunch of virtual machines. Bitnami also provides VMs with wordpress:  
[https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress/virtual-machine](https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress/virtual-machine)

But you’d probably have to configure the DNS and IP addresses for that whole setup… sounds like hell.

Or maybe use the Wordpress 3.0 “network”/multi-site function:  
[http://codex.wordpress.org/Create\_A\_Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)