DevOps(Day-45): Deploy Wordpress website on AWS

Over 30% of all websites on the internet use WordPress as their content management system (CMS). It is most often used to run blogs, but it can also be used to run e-commerce sites, message boards, and many other popular things. This guide will show you how to set up a WordPress blog site.

Task: Project

Create an EC2 instance with all the required configurations as we have seen in our previous AWS blogs. you can follow the below link:-

https://bandandevopsjourney.hashnode.dev/devopsday-40-aws-ec2-automation
We have seen how to create an AWS RDS in our previous blog. You can follow the below link:-

https://bandandevopsjourney.hashnode.dev/devopsday-44-relational-database-service-in-aws
Login to AWS EC2 instance and install mysql-client in the server. Login to the database server.

Run the below commands to create a database and user.

 CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
 CREATE USER 'wordpress' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress-pass';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpress;
 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
 Exit

Install apache2 on the ubuntu server.

 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install -y apache2

Let's check the public IP URL to view Apache2 web page.

Install WordPress on the server.

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

Rename the config file.
Change the wp-config.php file with the credentials, db name and db hostname created earlier.
A set of unique keys needs to be provided to the config file also.
Install the dependency of the application on the server.
```
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -ya
```
Copy the file contents from the WordPress folder to /var/www/html folder to configure the application with Apache web server.
Restart the Apache web server.
Navigate to <public IP>/wp-admin/ to view the WordPress website.
Now we can create a user in the WordPress site to get going in the application.