wordpress on AWS EC2 in 5 minutes

Choose EC2 from AWS management console
Click on Launch Instance
Choose Classic Wizard and hit Continue
Select Amazon Linux AMI (there are several other options)
Choose Micro (t1 micro, 163 MiB) which is the free tier EC2
Make sure you enter a short description for “User Data”
Review the details on the next page and hit Continue
Make sure you enter something for the Tag
Create a new key pair for authentication
create a new security group and make sure general ports such as 22(SSH), 80(HTTP), 443(HTTPS) and 8080(TOMCAT) are open
hit “Launch” and you’re done with setting up an EC2 instance
Create an Elastic IP (EIP) – select EIP used in “EC2”
Associate the EIP to the EC2 instance that you just launched
connect to the instance as “ec2-user” There are couple ways to do so from management console, simply right click on the instance and choose “connect”
- or you can simply use SSH client like putty. Make sure you convert PEM file to PPK which is supported by putty
yum install mlocate
install packages you need with yum
- # yum install httpd24
- # yum install php54
- # yum install php54-mysql
- # yum install php54-gd (php GD graphic library)
- # yum install mysql-server
Start services
- # service httpd start
- # service mysqld start

Download and extract wordpress
- # cd /var/www/
- # wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
- # tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
- # rm -rf html
- # mv wordpress html
- # chown -R apache:root html
Create mysql database
- # mysqladmin -uroot create blog
- # mysql_secure_installation
  - Set root password? [Y/n] y
  - Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
  - Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] n
  - Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
  - Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y
Configure wordpress
- # cd /var/www/html
- # mv wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
- # vi wp-config.php
  - define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘blog’);
    
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);
    
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘YOUPASSWORD‘);
    
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
Install wordpress from browser http://YOUR_ELASTIC_IP (which will be redirected to http://YOUR_ELASTIC_IP/wp-admin/install.php
To enable permlinks, be sure to modify /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and enable override option:
- AllowOverride All
- sample .htaccess for wordpress:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Optional step: Point your domain name to the EC2. For example I am a godaddy subscriber. what I need to do is simply pointing “A” record to the elastic IP

通過 FTP、SSH 等方式打开并编辑站点根目录下的 wp-config.php
查找 define('WPLANG', ''); 一行，在第二个参数处填入 zh_TW，变成 define('WPLANG', 'zh_TW'); 并保存文件
进入站点控制板（dashboard），看到更新提示后进行升级即可。WordPress 会自动从官方网站下载中文语言包并安装
多語言版下載 http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE USER 'wordpress-user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_strong_password';
install mysql
install phpMyAdmin
execute examples/create_tables.sql – it will create a database called phpmyadmin
create a pm user and give access to phpmyadmin db.
enable advanced features in config.inc.php
make sure PHP MySQL library coincides with mysql server version.
make sure following extensions are enabled:

define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);

setup site monitor https://uptimerobot.com/
run SSL test at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.steamedbun.xyz

ssl.conf

SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/www_steamedbun_xyz.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/www_steamedbun_xyz.key

cp /home/ec2-user/www_steamedbun_xyz.key /etc/pki/tls/private/

cp /home/ec2-user/www_steamedbun_xyz.crt /etc/pki/tls/certs/

chown root:root /etc/pki/tls/private/www_steamedbun_xyz.key /etc/pki/tls/certs/www_steamedbun_xyz.crt

chmod 600 /etc/pki/tls/private/www_steamedbun_xyz.key /etc/pki/tls/certs/www_steamedbun_xyz.crt

define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’);