Step By Step Installing WordPress on EC2 Ubuntu Server
Creating a EC2 instance
Note down the IPv4 Public IP
Make sure to add Auth Key to insure successful session
Click Yes and provide user name. In my case it is ‘ubuntu’ which is default by AWS. Once we are logged in, our first task to update apt source so that we can have updated packages and module.
sudo apt update
As WordPress is a web based application so our next tast is to install Apache Web Server. Install apache via below command.
apt-get install apache2 –y
Once installed you can verity it via typing hostname or IP on the web browser. It should get you Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page
However WordPress needs other mandatory component as PHP, MySQL so combo of all these service environment is known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). We can install all these component one by one like Apache or directly via typing below command.
apt-get install lamp-server^
Now it’s time to download latest version of WordPress. Let’s go to temp folder and download the zip installer.
cd /tmp
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Let’s unzip the installer for further install.
sudo tar xvfz latest.tar.gz
After this you should be able to see WordPress folder. You can verify via running ‘ls’ command. Now it’s time to move installation files and components to Document Root folder. By default installer folder for Apache Web Server is /var/www/html.
cd /tmp/wordpress
cp –a * /var/www/html
To check the permission and ownership we can use ls –ll command. www-data should have ownership of the html folder in order to work. If not we can update the ownership via below command.
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
Now it’s time create a Database for WordPress so that installer can make a connection to the database. It’s a mandate for WordPress installation. Login into MySQL via below command.
mysql –u root –p
As you are first time login into MySQL, it will ask for to configure a new password for root user. Make sure to provide an strong password here. Once you logged in you will get mysql>prompt. Now let’s check databases. Below command will show you all the available databases.
show databases;
To create a new Database
create database wordpress;
To create a new user for DB
create user 'abhay'@'localhost' identified by 'admin@123';
Assign permission to user
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'abhay'@'localhost';
flush privileges;
quit
We are all set for the databases prerequisite prospective. Now navigate to Root Directory folder (cd /var/www/html)and copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php.
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
update the file by changing
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'abhay' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'admin@123' );
define("FS_METHOD", "direct");
Navigate to sites-available. Verify the vim 000-default.conf. Document root path should be /var/www/html/. If not change it to /var/www/html/.
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
Now navigate to Sites-enabled to check how many enabled sites are there. If single default one is there ensure that is loaded by below command.
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
a2ensite 000-default.conf
It should show Site 000-default already enabled. Now restart the Apache service. And we are good to go to final installation of WordPress.
service apache2 restart
Try to browse using IP
We are all set now! We will also needed to install below modules in order to run smoothly with WordPress plugins.
apt-get install php-xml libapache2-mod-php php-curl
Many Thanks!
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