WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free

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.

[If this video is unavailable for any reason, I've made it available via Youtube.]

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
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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’;
[...]
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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

 

(Cross-posted @ Composite Code)