# Day 45: Deploy Wordpress website on AWS (Jan 10, 2024)

**Over 30% of all websites on the internet use WordPress as their content management system (CMS). It is most often used to run blogs, but it can also be used to run e-commerce sites, message boards, and many other famous things. This guide will show you how to set up a WordPress blog site.**

## Task-01

**As WordPress requires a MySQL database to store its data, create an RDS as you did on Day 44**

* **Create an Amazon RDS for MySQL Database**
    
    1. **Go to the Amazon RDS console.**
        
    2. **Click on "Create database" and select "MySQL" as the database engine.**
        
    3. **Configure the database details, including the DB instance identifier, username, password, database name, and other settings as per your requirements.**
        
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        1. **Configure the VPC, subnet, and security group settings for the RDS instance.**
            

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1. **Finally, create the RDS database.**
    

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**📢 To configure this WordPress site, you will create the following resources in AWS:**

* **An Amazon EC2 instance to install and host the WordPress application.**
    
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    **Run the following command in your terminal to install a MySQL client to interact with the database.**
    

```plaintext
     sudo apt install mysql-client -y
```

**Run the following command in your terminal to connect to your MySQL database. Replace “<user>” and “<password>” with the master username and password you configured when creating your Amazon RDS database. -h is the host which is the RDS database endpoint.**

```plaintext
    mysql -h <RDS hostname> -u <master username> -p
```

**Finally, create a database user for your WordPress application and give the user permission to access the WordPress database.**

**Run the following commands in your terminal:**

* ```plaintext
         CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
         CREATE USER 'wordpress' IDENTIFIED BY 'wordpress-pass';
         GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wordpress;
         FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
         Exit
    ```
    

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**To run WordPress, you need to run a web server on your EC2 instance. To install Apache on your EC2 instance, run the following command in your terminal:**

```plaintext
 sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
```

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**You can see that your Apache web server is working by browsing the public IP of your ec2 instance.**

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**First, download and uncompress the software by running the following commands in your terminal:**

```plaintext
 wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 
 tar -xzf latest.tar.gz
```

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**You will see a tar file and a directory called WordPress with uncompressed contents using the ls command.**

```plaintext
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
```

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**Open the wp-config.php file**

* **DB\_NAME: your RDS database name**
    
* **DB\_USER: The name of the user you created in the database in the previous steps**
    
* **DB\_PASSWORD: The password for the user you created in the previous steps**
    
* **DB\_HOST: The hostname of the database means your database endpoint**
    

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**To configure the Authentication Unique Keys and Salts section in the WordPress** `wp-config.php` **file, you can replace the entire content in that section with the following content:**

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**First, install the application dependencies you need for WordPress.**

**In your terminal, run the following command.**

```plaintext
 sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -y
```

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**Copy your WordPress application files into the /var/www/html directory used by Apache.**

```plaintext
 sudo cp -r wordpress/* /var/www/html/
```

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**To restart the Apache web server**

```plaintext
 systemctl restart apache2
```

**To access the WordPress admin dashboard, open a web browser and enter the following URL:** [`http://ec2-public-ip/wp-admin/`](https://hemanshubtc.hashnode.dev/day-45-deploy-wordpress-website-on-aws#heading-task-01)**, where** `ec2-public-ip` **should be replaced with the public IP address or domain name of your Amazon EC2 instance.**

* **An Amazon RDS for MySQL database to store your WordPress data.**
    
* **Set up the server and post your new WordPress app.**