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Set Up a WordPress Site Using EC2 and RDS
Ready to move beyond shared hosting? This hands-on lab teaches you how to deploy a WordPress site using AWS's most powerful building blocks—EC2 for web and application hosting, and RDS for managed database services. Perfect for developers and solutions architects who want scalable, resilient infrastructure.
Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Objective One: Install Packages on EC2
Install required software packages (listed below) on the EC2 instance and download the WordPress installation package.
Required Packaged
- wget
- php-mysqlnd
- httpd
- php-fpm
- php-mysqli
- mariadb105-server
- php-json
- php
- php-devel
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Objective Two: Create RDS Database
Create a DB subnet group and provision a MariaDB RDS instance in the database subnets with proper network configuration.
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Objective Three: Configure Security Groups
Configure security groups to allow MySQL traffic from the EC2 instance to the RDS database and verify HTTP access is enabled for the EC2 instance.
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Objective Four: Create Database User
Connect to the RDS database and create a dedicated WordPress user with full privileges on the
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Objective Five: Configure WordPress
Create and configure the
wp-config.phpfile with database connection settings and generate WordPress security keys using the provided URL: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ -
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Objective Six: Install WordPress Files
Copy WordPress files to the Apache document root (
/var/www/html/) and configure Apache to enable .htaccess support for permalinks. -
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Objective Seven: Complete Installation
Start the Apache web server and complete the WordPress installation through the web interface (http://
ec2-public-ip-address)
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