I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video of the steps for setup & configuration. Enjoy.
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The commands to install php, mysql, httpd (apache), and manipulate the config files are included below for copy and paste needs.
Create a Linux Instance on AWS – create & assign an IP Address
Login with ‘ec2-user’
sudo -i lsof -i
yum -y install httpd
service httpd start
yum -y install php mysql yum install mysql-server
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm yum install phpmyadmin
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
Hit insert hey to make changes to the conf file.
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Web application to manage MySQL
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin Alias /mysqladmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin ————————————————————————————
service httpd restart service mysqld start /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘somepassword’ vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf vi /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
———————————————————————————— […] /* Authentication type */ $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘http’; […] ————————————————————————————
Watch the video for the WordPress Database creation in mysql w/ phpmyadmin.
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/ cp -avr /var/www/html/wordpress/* /var/www/html/ rm -rf /var/www/html/wordpress/
cd /etc/httpd/conf vi httpd.conf Find the user here… it should be ‘apache’
cp /var/www/html/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/wp-config.php vi /var/www/html/wp-config.php
…Add the database settings.
chown -R apache /var/www/html chmod -R 755 /var/www/html
