Installing Wordpress on an Amazon EC2 Linux Server
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users cite it as the setup tutorial they followed when asking follow-up questions about EC2 WordPress installs, such as database access, file locations and subdomain routing.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2014 to 2015.
What it is
A short 2013 screencast showing how to install WordPress on a free-tier 64-bit Amazon Linux EC2 instance. It walks through connecting over SSH, installing Apache, PHP and MySQL, creating a database and setting up WordPress.
What people said
Cites Mark · 2014-06 · Stack Overflow · on “AWS: Wordpress install”
I hope you can help. I'm trying to setup a wordpress blog. In the past I've been using HostGator but now making the switch to AWS. However, I'm having problems with the basics. I have created an instance and managed to login to the instance via putty. In S3 I have created 2 buckets. lmof.uk and [LINK] (following one of the AWS guides) and uploaded a php file to lmof.uk In Route 53, I have added the Domain to the Hosted Zone, created A record and CNAME as well. Updating my Nameservers from my register and if you visit lmof.uk it downloads the php file. When I log into my Putty, I can't seem to find the php file anywhere. I followed this guide: [this video] but when it came to looking at my public
Cites Robbert · 2015-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Cannot find created database from AWS EC2 Instance”
I followed this [this video] tutorial to install a Wordpress website on an Amazon EC2 instance successfully. After creating an EC2 instance and opening your terminal, the tutorial explains the following steps: Login by your elastic ip: ssh ec2-user@elastic-ip -i pem-location Update server: sudo yum update Switch to super user: sudo su Install Apache webserver: yum install httpd Start Apache server: service httpd start Install PHP mysql: yum install php php-mysql Install mysql: yum install mysql-server Start mysql service: service mysqld start Create database: mysqladmin -uroot create DATABASE-NAME Setup and secure database: mysql_secure_installation After finishing the above steps, you download a
Cites gdubs · 2015-09 · Stack Overflow · on “How do I configure my subdomain to point to a wordpress blog in AWS”
I just setup my wordpress blog using this tutorial [this video] Which I ended up having a wordpress site with this address XX.XX.XXX.XXX/blog I want to have use a subdomain to direct to that part of the site. I was able to create a record set (AWS Route 53) to be able to point to the IP, but when I go to the subdomain it would show me the Apache page which is what you see when you go to the IP address (XX.XX.XXX.XXX). My domain name btw is being used by a .Net web app which is hosted in a windows server. With that said, how do I go about making sure that the subdomain is pointed to the address XX.XX.XXX.XXX/blog instead of the XX.XX.XXX.XXX address? I'm not really familiar with DNS setup so any h