I have done an Oopsie setting up WP.
I have multiple sites I’ve stood up on Ubuntu.
I’ve installed Astra (Theme) and Elementor (Plugin), when using Astra I was unable to install themes, sorted that out by installing cURL and XML viewer support on the server
When I go to interact with the theme and use the AI builder or page editor it comes up basically completely blank, images fail to load or are skewed when they do load.
Elementor loads forever and then fails asking to launch in safe mode, clicking safe mode it says ‘Error’ and there are no logs.
I presumed it may be a permissions thing but if I grant Apache owner permission on the site the site turns into a 403 error and I have to roll it back.
I’ve clearly missed something, is it just PHP? Do I need a different version?
I was really enjoying the lack of overhead needed for the Ubuntu VM only having 1GB of RAM and 1 CPU assigned vs the 8GB and 2CPU on a Windows server but it’s nowhere near as simple as having a wizard that does everything.
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No one is going to be able to help you I wouldn’t think with limited information – there’s too many things that could possibly be wrong with server configuration. Would follow a LAMP stack guide for setting up WordPress on whatever version of Ubuntu you’re running (there’s quite a few of them about) – or LEMP stack if you prefer Nginx server.
Have you checked the hosting requirements for WordPress? I’m imagining there’s a page on WordPress.org that will tell you what minimum requirements you need to hit.
A 1gb server is not enough to run a lamp stack and WordPress. Min 2gb.
Blank screen issues can be troubleshooted by activating debugging mode.
When I setup a VM to run WordPress I had a problem with either MySQL or PHP running out of RAM. I eventually edited php to only spawn so many processes and therefore only so much RAM.
I’ll post that link when I get back home. It basically calls out certain settings to lower the amount of RAM used.