Deploy WordPress on EC2

•Wordpress

WordPress is a highly popular content management system (CMS). It is most commonly used for blogs but can also be used for running e-commerce sites, message boards, company websites, Portfolio Websites and many other popular use cases. In this guide, you will learn how to set up a WordPress site to run a blog.

•AWS Services services that use in this project

An Amazon EC2 instance to install and host the WordPress application.

Implementation

Here are the steps on how to deploy WordPress on an EC2 instance in AWS:

1. Create an EC2 Instance:
   2.Navigate to the EC2 service: Click on "Services" and select "EC2"

5.Choosing an instance type:

Scroll down to select an EC2 instance type. An instance type is a particular configuration of CPU, memory (RAM), storage, and network capacity.

AWS has a huge selection of instance types that cover many different workloads. Some are geared toward memory-intensive workloads, such as databases and caches, while others are aimed at compute-heavy workloads, such as image processing or video encoding.

Amazon EC2 allows you to run 750 hours per month of a t2.micro instance under the AWS Free Tier.

**Select the t2.micro instance.

b.You will return to Key pair (login) Section and you will find that Key has been selected.

1. Configuring a security group and launching your instance:
   You need to configure a security group before launching your instance. Security groups are networking rules that describe the kind of network traffic that is allowed to your EC2 instance. You want to allow traffic to your instance:

•SSH traffic from all IP addresses so you can use the SSH protocol to log in to your EC2 instance and configure WordPress.

•HTTPS traffic from all IP addresses so that users can view your WordPress site Secured.

•HTTP traffic from all IP addresses so that users can view your WordPress site.

a. To configure this, select Allow SSH traffic from Anywhere and select Allow HTTPS & HTTP traffic from the internet

1. Launch:
   It is now time to launch your EC2 instance.
   a. Choose the Launch instance button to create your EC2 instance.
   b. Wait for instance to launch.

c. You have successfully launched your EC2 instance. Click on Open address to view website.

1. Allocate elastic IP :
   a.Click on Ec2 dashboard
   b. Click on Allocate Elastic IP

d.After that choose instance and click on associate.

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1. copy and paste the code in the terminal.




2. Command to restart/reload apache server
   
   sudo systemctl restart apache2
   
   OR
   
   sudo systemctl reload apache2




3. Install certbot
   
   sudo apt-get update
   
   sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache




4. Request and install ssl on your site with certbot
   
   sudo certbot --apache