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Host WordPress Website in AWS
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🤔 What is WordPress? #
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.
WordPress offers a plugin architecture and a template system, allowing you to customize any website to your business, blog, portfolio, or online store.
🛢Host WordPress Website in AWS #
When you've finished customizing your WordPress website. To make your website visible to everyone, you must host it with a web hosting company.
Let's get started with how to host a WordPress website on Amazon Web Services.
- Login to AWS Management Console and Go to EC2 Instances Dashboard.
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- From the EC2 instances dashboard, click on the Instances (running) section.
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- On the top right corner, click on the Launch instances button.
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- Look for WordPress Certified Bitnami and Automattic instances in the AWS Marketplace.
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- Click on the t2.micro instance from the 'Choose an Instance Type' option (free tier) and press the Review and Launch button.
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- After you've double-checked your setup, press the launch button.
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- AWS will now ask you whether you want to download a new key pair or use an existing key pair. Make your choice and click on the Launch button.
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- Congratulations, an EC2 instance has been successfully launched. Now, open up the Public IPv4 address with http as its protocol.
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- The default WordPress theme should now be running in your AWS EC2 instance.
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- You will need your username and password to access your WordPress Admin Panel. Click the Action button, select Monitor and troubleshoot, and then Get system log to find your username and password.
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- The Get system log console will now appear, and you can find your username and password by scrolling up a little.
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- Congratulations, we've logged into our WordPress Admin Panel successfully.
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Wordpress Dominates 76.4% of CMS (Content management system) Market Share.
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