Hosted-WordPress-Website-On-Amazon-Aws

Provides a step-by-step guide and configuration files for deploying a WordPress website on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance with custom domain name (kiransinghverma.online)

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Step 1: Launch an instance

• AMI — Ubuntu Server
• Instance Type — t2.micro
• Key Pair — ppk file format
• Firewall (security groups) — ssh, http, https
• Configuration Storage — 8 GB, gp2
• No. of Instance — 01
• Launch Instance

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Step 2: Associate Elastic IP address

Step 3: Connect via SSH Client (Putty)

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Step 4: Installing and Configuring mysql server:

Install Apache server on Ubuntu

sudo apt update

sudo apt install apache2 -y

Install php runtime and php mysql connector

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

Install MySQL server

sudo apt install mysql-server -y

Login to MySQL server

sudo mysql -u root

Change authentication plugin to mysql_native_password (change the password to something strong)

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password by 'admin@123';

Create a new database user for wordpress (change the password to something strong)

CREATE USER 'wp_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'admin@123';

Create a database for wordpress

CREATE DATABASE wp;

Grant all privilges on the database 'wp' to the newly created user

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp. TO 'wp_user'@localhost;*

Exit or ctrl-D

Step 5: Download, Configure & Install Wordpress:

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

Unzip

tar -xvf latest.tar.gz

Move wordpress folder to apache document root

sudo mv wordpress/ /var/www/html

create the wp-config.php

cd /var/www/html/wordpress vi wp-config.php

ip-address followed by wordpress

3.89.166.68/wordpress/

I want Wordpress website to the server at this root path. for that I need to modify apache configuration, so I go back to my terminal rest follow below commands.

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ vi 000-default.conf

Change document root to /var/www/html/wordpress

sudo systemctl restart apache2

http://3.89.166.68/ # hit on browser

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Step 6: Link Domain name to our website

I purchased a domain called kiransinghverma.online from Hostinger

Here in Points to — ec2 instance public ip address Add Record cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ vi 000-default.conf

sudo systemctl restart apache2

kiransinghverma.online # hit on browser probably it takes 15-20 minutes to reflect wait until Now we can access WordPress website by my domain name.

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Step 7: Secure Connection (HTTPS)

install certbot

sudo apt-get update sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache -y

Request and install ssl on your site with certbot

sudo certbot --apache

This will secure the connection