Task 18 :Configuring Wordpress and Mysql.

Rishabh
3 min readMay 4, 2021

Task-Description:

đź”… Create an AWS EC2 instance

đź”… Configure the instance with Apache Webserver.

🔅 Download php application name “WordPress”.

đź”… As wordpress stores data at the backend in MySQL Database server. Therefore, you need to setup a MySQL server using AWS RDS service using Free Tier.

đź”… Provide the endpoint/connection string to the WordPress application to make it work.

Pre-Requirements:

a. AWS Account
b. Stable Internet Connectivity
c. Little knowledge about EC2

Lets dive into it directly……….

Step-1: Launch a Aws Ec2 instance and login into it.

>> We are using Amazon Linux Ami
>> Two instances are needed 1-for frontend and 2nd for Backend
>> Frontend must have a connectivity and backend must be in same subnet as Frontend

Step-2:Installing the httpd software as we will be using it as a Webserver.

# yum install httpd -y

Step-3: Installing php supported for v5.6 of mysql

>> As every version of php is not supports every verison of mysql
# amazon linux extras install php7.4

Step-4: Now installing wordpress

>> 1st download wordpress using wget command and extract it
>> copy the extracted the wordpress package into httpd document root
which is /var/www/html
>>Now changing the permission of the apache self-created user to run mysql

Step-5: Starting the httpd service

# systemctl enable httpd
# systemctl start httpd

Step-6: Now go to Wordpress Instance public IP via any browser

That’s it we just have to follow the 6 basic steps and we have launched as well configured the Wordpress which inturn is connected to mysql

Hope you guys enjoyed and learned from it also

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Rishabh
Rishabh

Written by Rishabh

Student from B.tech 2nd Year, A proud ARTH learner, love new technologies, Curious about many thing, likes to explore places, love eating pizza and much more.

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