{"id":3073,"date":"2019-05-04T02:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T02:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/\/\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2019-05-05T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T16:10:13","slug":"setting-up-wordpress-on-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/setting-up-wordpress-on-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up WordPress on AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just setup WordPress on Amazons EC2 service. I didn’t find a good set of instructions on how to do it, but pieced together the following from various sources. Note that my PC is Linux based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Set up an Amazon EC2 account<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Go to https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ and click on the signup button on the upper right of the screen. Fill out the forms to create an account. Select the free plan. After verifying your account (Amazon sends you an SMS message) you can then use the “My Account” drop-down menu to access the management console, or go to https:\/\/signin.aws.amazon.com\/ to sign in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AWS EC2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now you are going to setup a virtual server that will be where you install WordPress. Find the “Launch a virtual machine” link and click on it. Then in step one, select the Amazon Linux 2 AMI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Select the free tier instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and click the “Review and Launch” button, and then click the “Launch” button. You will next create a key pair for security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Use the drop-down to create a new pair and then give the key pair an easy name to remember. Click the “Download key pair” button and save the downloaded .pem file to a location you can remember on your system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The click the “Launch Instances” button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should now have a running virtual Linux machine. The next steps are to SSH into it and begin to install the software. You need to identify the IP address of your instance. Select the instance in the AWS Management Console, and look for the IPv4 Public IP in the instance description (bottom part of the screen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I use Putty for an SSH client. You can also use your Linux terminal with ssh. These instructions are for setting up Putty. If you click on your instance in the aws management console, then click on the Connect button you can get the instructions for using ssh in a terminal window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First you need to convert the .pem key file to a format Putty can use: .ppk. I used puttygen to that. Instructions install puttygen are at https:\/\/tecadmin.net\/convert-ppk-to-pem-using-command\/.<\/a> Ignore the part describing the conversion from ppk to pem since you need to convert the other direction. To create the ppk file use the following format:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

puttygen robertjwallace.pem -o robertjwallace.ppk<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

replacing “robertjwallace” with the name you gave you key file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Run Putty and on the Session screen enter the Public IP address for the virtual server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then using the SSH\/Auth menu in Putty, browse to your .ppk file and select it. Then go back to the main Putty session screen and type in a profile name and save it for future use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now click the “Open” button in Putty to launch the SSL client. The login name is “ec2-user” with no password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing you should do is setup a password for ec2-user. Use the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sudo passwd ec2-user<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will be prompted for a new password. Note that no characters will be echo’d back as you type in the password.
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You now have a running instance of a Linux VM. The next steps are to install the software you will need. The software you will install are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n