Title: Adding a site to a Linux based server
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Adding a site to a Linux based server

 *  [tome9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tome9/)
 * (@tome9)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-site-to-a-linux-based-server/)
 * Hi guys,
 * I’m a start out web designer making websites for clients on WordPress. One of
   my clients I am creating a website for wants the website to be hosted on his 
   Linux server he has. I’m not too familar to server side lanuage and was wondering
   if someone could answer a few queries for me.
 * 1. Can a WordPress website be uploaded to a linux server?
    2. Is this a complex
   task? By which does it require knowledge in Linux langauge. 3. Is their any support
   documents someone could point me towards to undertake this task?
 * Finally, It was a previous developer who had access to this server and built 
   a previous website hosted on it. What information do I need from him to access
   this server?
 * Thanks guys.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-site-to-a-linux-based-server/#post-6972511)
 * 1. Totally, WordPress just needs PHP and MySQL, which you’ll run under Apache
   or Nginx on the server. Personally, I prefer Linux servers, and most of our documentation
   was written with a Linux server in mind.
 * 2. No different than building a WordPress site anywhere else.
 * 3. Do you have access to a hosting provider’s control panel, cPanel, WHM, etc?

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