WordPress Deployment On EC2 Instance And Use RDS For Database

Hello Guys ,

In this article we will deploy WordPress on AWS EC2 Instance and we will use AWS RDS Service For Database . In AWS RDS We will use MySQL Database .

ARTH - Task 18 ???????

Task Description?? -

• ?? Create an AWS EC2 instance 
• ?? Configure the instance with Apache Webserver. 
• ?? Download PhP application name "WordPress".
• ?? 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.
• ?? Provide the endpoint/connection string to the WordPress application to make it work.

Task Steps -

• For this practical I have my windows system and On my windows system AWS client program is already installed -

# aws --version

Deploy WordPress On EC2 Instance -

• Launch EC2 Instance ( "sg-001cad109816edeee" is allowing all traffic ) -

  # aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-08e0ca9924195beba --instance-type t2.micro --key-name hello --security-group-ids sg-001cad109816edeee

• Connect with putty and setup WordPress On this instance -

• Run below command to setup wordpress - ( I have these command in a file "install" now I will run this file "install")

  # yum install httpd -y
  # systemctl enable httpd --now
  # amazon-linux-extras install php7.3 -y
  # wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  # tar -zxf latest.tar.gz

  # cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html/
  # systemctl restart httpd

• Make executable this file and run this file -

  # chmod +x install
  # ./install

• Check WordPress is running or not ( In my case it is running file if WordPress site is not showing then restart httpd service ) -

Create MySQL Database on AWS With RDS Service -

• Run below command to create Database ( "mytask18" )Cluster using AWS RDS Service

  # aws rds create-db-instance --availability-zone ap-south-1b --db-name mytask18 --db-instance-identifier testing --vpc-security-group-ids sg-001cad109816edeee --engine mysql --engine-version 5.7.31 --master-username admin --master-user-password redhatadmin --publicly-accessible --db-instance-class db.t1.micro --allocated-storage 20

• EndPoint URL is "testing.cxcaxlu9lsw3.ap-south-1.rds.amazonaws.com" -

SetUp WordPress -

• Give Info to WordPress -

• Copy this code -

• Put copied code in "/var/www/html/wp-config.php" at EC2 Instance where WordPress is deployed -

• Now Install WordPress -

Our WordPress Site is successfully deployed. Now Task is competed.