Deploying a WordPress Instance

Deploying a WordPress Server

  1. Choose a blueprint.
  2. Click on the Home button in the top banner and select Create instance.
  3. Ensure that the location of the virtual machine (instance) matches the database you’ve recently deployed. If it defaults to a different location or AZ, click “Change AWS Region and Availability Zone” and select the correct value.
  4. Please select your instance image. Under “Select a blueprint,” click on OS Only and choose Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Create VPC

  1. Click on “Add launch script.”

    • You will use the launch script to install prerequisites, as well as WordPress and WordPress CLI. Paste the following code into the launch script:
# Update the package index
sudo apt update

# Install the common package
sudo apt install software-properties-common -y

# Add the PHP repository to the instance
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y

# Update the package index now that the new repository has been added
sudo apt update

# Install Apache, PHP, mysql client
sudo apt-get install apache2 php8.0 libapache2-mod-php8.0 php8.0-common php8.0-imap php8.0-mbstring php8.0-xmlrpc php8.0-soap php8.0-gd php8.0-xml php8.0-intl php8.0-mysql php8.0-cli php8.0-bcmath php8.0-ldap php8.0-zip php8.0-curl mysql-client-core-8.0 -y


# Go to the web folder
cd /var/www/html/

# Download the latest version of WordPress
sudo curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

# Unzip the files
sudo tar xzvf latest.tar.gz

# Delete the zipped download
sudo rm ./latest.tar.gz

# Move all the WordPress files to the root web directory
cd ./wordpress/ && sudo mv ./* ../

# Create the WordPress Config file from the sample
sudo cp /var/www/html/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/wp-config.php

# Change the permissions for the directory
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www

# Remove the sample config file
sudo rm /var/www/html/wp-config-sample.php

# Go back up a level and delete index.html
cd ../
sudo rm ./index.html

# Download WP-CLI
sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

# Make it executable
sudo chmod +x wp-cli.phar

# Move it to the bin directory
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

# Create the wp-cli config file that points to our WordPress folder
echo "path: /var/www/html" > $HOME/wp-cli.yml

# Enable the GD PHP extension by removing the ';'
sudo sed -i 's/;extension=gd/extension=gd/' /etc/php/8.0/apache2/php.ini

# Restart the apache service
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

  1. Scroll down to ‘Choose your instance plan.’

    • Select the ‘$5 USD’ server with 1GB of memory and 1 vCPU.

Create VPC

  1. Define your instance

    • We need to name your virtual machine.

    • Name your instance ‘Workshop-WordPress’.

    • Click Create instance.

Create VPC