Installing WordPress Apache on RHEL

Download WordPress for apache
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /data

Configure MySQL Database

Connect to MySQL Server & Enter Password
mysql -u root -p
Enter password:

Creating New User for WordPress Database

CREATE USER wordpress@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "your_password_here";

Create New Database
create database wordpress;

Grant Privileges to Database
GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO wordpress@localhost;

FLUSH privileges
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit

Configure Apache VirtualHost

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost 10.33.68.27:80>
ServerAdmin test@test.com
DocumentRoot /data/wordpress
ServerName www.wordpresstest.com
        <Directory /data/wordpress>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride ALL
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

service httpd restart

vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1  wordpress

Configuring WordPress

cd /data/wordpress
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

vi wp-config.php

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'wordpressuser');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'Pearson1');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', '10.161.141.36');

Open your browser and type any of the following address.

http://wordpress/
http://localhost
http://your-ip

Ref: http://www.tecmint.com/install-wordpress-using-lamp-or-lemp-on-rhel-centos-fedora/