In this post we will see, how we can change the default port (port 80) of Wordpress to something else (port 1280) in order to have port 80 available for other applications to use.

To make this change we will need to change 2 main things, the Apache configuration files and some options in the MySQL database.

We are assuming that Wordpress is installed in a LAMP stack on an Ubuntu or Debian server.

Wordpress Installation and Configuration Guide.

Prerequisites #

• Create a sudo user on your server
• Install a LAMP stack
• Secure your site with SSL (can be done after)

Create a MySQL Database and User for WordPress #

Log in to a MySQL administrative account (root):

sudo mysql -u root -p

Create wordpress database:

CREATE DATABASE wordpress DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

Create exclusive user for this database:

GRANT ALL ON wordpress.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Flush the privileges so that the current instance of MySQL knows about the recent changes: