Day 45 : Deploy WordPress website on AWS

WordPress is a highly popular and versatile content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites easily.

Task:

• As WordPress requires a MySQL database to store its data ,create an RDS as you did in 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.

• Setup the server and post your new WordPress app.

Solution:

• Installing WordPress.

    cd /tmp && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  

  

• Extract file using tar.

    tar -xvf latest.tar.gz
  

• Copy the wordpress folder to /var/www/html/ path.

    sudo cp -R wordpress /var/www/html/
  

  

• For WordPress functionality, PHP along with some necessary extensions are required.

    sudo apt install -y php php-common php-mysql php-xml php-xmlrpc php-curl php-gd php-imagick php-cli php-dev php-imap php-mbstring php-soap php-zip php-intl
  

• Install some other additional PHP modules.

    sudo apt install -y php-mysql php-cgi php-cli php-gd
  

• Now, restart the Apache to apply the changes.

    sudo systemctl restart apache2
  

• Change ownership for the Apache server.

    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/
  

• Create uploads directory.

    sudo mkdir /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads
  

• Change ownership.

    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/
  

Let's Setup WordPress.

Add database connection details based on your own RDS configurations.

Thank you for reading😉.