curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

# Upload mcp-server/ folder to your VPS, then:
cd mcp-server
npm install

# Copy and edit the .env file
cp .env.example .env
nano .env

PORT=3000
SERVER_URL=https://mcp.yourdomain.com
SECRET_KEY=your_random_secret_key_here

npm install -g pm2
pm2 start src/server.js --name wp-mcp-server
pm2 save
pm2 startup

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mcp.yourdomain.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;

        # Required for SSE
        proxy_buffering off;
        proxy_read_timeout 300s;
        chunked_transfer_encoding on;
    }
}

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
sudo certbot --nginx -d mcp.yourdomain.com

curl https://mcp.yourdomain.com/health

Claude.ai
    ↓  MCP (SSE)
mcp.yourdomain.com  (this server)
    ↓  REST API + X-MCP-Secret header
yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-mcp-connect/v1/execute
    ↓
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