Configuring MySQL Permissions for WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 and WSL

I discussed in my previous article on the changes needed to automate the upgrade of Ubuntu 18.04 on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The recommended commands that I had been provided were intended for Ubuntu 16.04, yet I discovered some steps are a little different on 18.04.

My goal is to create a script that fully automates the setup of WordPress on WSL, based on this article by Jason Cross. As I walked through his tutorial I noticed another more significant difference when it came to setting up the WordPress database.

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Scripting Ubuntu 18.04 Upgrade for WSL

If you have been running Ubuntu 16.04 on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you may need to modify your scripts to automate future upgrades on 18.04. There are differences in Ubuntu 18.04 that may require our attention if we want the upgrade to be completely unattended.