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Getting Started: Setting Up WordPress

Explore how to create and configure a WordPress instance on AWS using EC2. Learn to access the instance via SSH, verify its status, and retrieve the administrator credentials needed to manage your WordPress site effectively.

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In this lesson, we’ll set up the WordPress instance we’ll work with in this chapter.

Creating a WordPress instance

Let’s first create a simple WordPress instance that we can log in to via SSH.

Shell
aws ec2 run-instances \
    --image-id resolve:ssm:/aws/service/marketplace/prod-tdzx6newyhgcc/5.9.3-16-r08-on-debian-10 \
    --instance-type t2.micro \
    --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=team,Value=wordpress}]' 'ResourceType=volume,Tags=[{Key=team,Value=wordpress}]' \
    --security-group-ids 'ssh-access' 'https-access' \
    --key-name 'hello-wordpress'

This will start a WordPress instance based on the AWS Marketplace WordPress image from Bitnami (specified through the --image-id using an alias). The instance type will be t2.micro. We add some tags through --tag-specifications for both the instance and all volumes created for it. We attach the security groups ssh-access and https-access through the --security-group-ids parameter. ...