Deploy Wordpress website on AWS

Task-01

• As WordPress requires a MySQL database to store its data, create an RDS as you did on Day 44

To configure this WordPress site, you will create the following resources in AWS:

• An Amazon EC2 instance to install and host the WordPress application.

• An Amazon RDS for MySQL database to store your WordPress data.

• Set up the server and post your new WordPress app.

As WordPress requires a MySQL database to store its data, create an RDS as you did on Day 44

Plz, refer to this Blog to create RDS--> Day44-RDS_IN_AWS.

• Set up the EC2 instance to host the WordPress application:

  • SSH into the EC2 instance using a terminal or SSH client.

  • Install Apache, PHP, and MySQL client:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -y

• Before configuring the Apache web server, you need to create a database user for the WordPress application and grant it appropriate permissions to access the WordPress database.

• Connect to your Amazon RDS instance using a MySQL client. Replace <RDS endpoint>, <master username>, and <master password> with your RDS instance details:

    mysql -h <RDS endpoint> -u <master username> -p
  

• Enter the password for the master username when prompted.

• Create a new database user for the WordPress application. Replace <wordpress_username> and <wordpress_password> with your desired username and password:

    CREATE USER '<wordpress_username>' IDENTIFIED BY '<wordpress_password>';
  

• Create the WordPress database if it doesn't exist. Replace <wordpress_database> with your desired database name:

    CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `<wordpress_database>`;
  

• Grant privileges to the database user for the WordPress database:

    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <wordpress_database>.* TO <wordpress_username>;
  

• Flush the privileges to update the changes:

    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  

• Exit the MySQL prompt:

    exit;
  

• Configure Apache to serve the WordPress files:

    sudo a2enmod rewrite
    sudo systemctl restart apache2

• Download and extract the latest WordPress files:

    wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
    tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz

• need to go to the WordPress directory

• Now create a copy of the config file and edit the wp-config.php file

• Update the WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php) with the database connection details.

    sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
    sudo vim wp-config.php

• Copy the extracted WordPress files to the Apache web server document root:

sudo cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html/

• Restart the Apache web server:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

• Access your new WordPress site:

  • Open a web browser and enter the public IP address or DNS name of your EC2 instance. You should see the WordPress installation page.

  • Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the WordPress setup.

Thank you for reading. I hope you were able to understand and learn something new from my blog.

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