WORDPRESS IN THE AMAZON EC2 CLOUD

Southern California WordPress Meetup, May 21st, 2013

Belsien Thomas, @belsien

http://wppowerguide.com

WHO AM I?

I’m Belsien Thomas (@belsien), building websites with PHP, JAVA, and various programming languages for over 12+ years. Worked with WordPresss since 2006 (version 2.0). Spoken at WordCamp LA.

Run a WordPress blog http://wppowerguide.com has guides and tips on how to utilize WordPress as a CMS in powerful ways, other than just a blog.

Built free video guided tutorial at http://buildyourwpsite.com , will be putting up more free tutorials soon. Check out these two sites.

TOPICS COVERED

Why EC2?

Advantages/Disadvantages

What is Bitnami?

AWS Marketplace 1-Click Installers

Customize the default setup

WHY RUN ON EC2

• Micro instance is free for 1st year, after that basic costs ~$15/month (depending on # of services)

Cost Effective

• Micro instance has 613MB, more than most VPS

Fast

• EC2 is very secure, requires keypairs to connect and security groups to open ports

Secure

• Start with “micro” and ramp up.

Scales well

ADVANTAGES

Create an unlimited number of websites, no restrictions on WordPress instances

Same world class infrastructure as Amazon.com

Already PCI Compliant, great for eCommerce!

Established and popular, easy to find people who know AWS Systems and API’s

Everything can automated.

DISADVANTAGES

No Cpanel, Plesk style software, need to get comfortable using Virtual Console or Remote Desktop

Takes some learning to understand the “AWS language” (Elastic IP, RDS, etc.)

No support from Amazon technical staff unless you pay big $$$

A bit of a learning curve to setup initially

WHAT IS BITNAMI?

Preconfigured virtual server with entire stack LAMP stack setup

Popular Linux flavors: Ubuntu 64-bit, Red Hat, etc.

Creates default users for Apache and databases for MySQL

Multiple Setup Options – 1 click installations

Completely Free software!

AWS MARKETPLACE – 1-CLICK INSTALLERS!

BITNAMI LAUNCH WIZARD

AMAZON TERMINOLOGY

“Elastic IP” = Static IP By default amazon instances startup with a “Public IP” , not

guaranteed to be the same. Always setup a Static/Elastic IP right after you create an instance.

EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) = Web Server S3 = Redundant Storage RDS = Redundant MySQL Server (Oracle & MS-SQL also

avail)

OVERVIEW OF INSTALLATION STEPS

1. Setup a AWS

Account

2. Create a keypair to connect to

server

3. Install 1-click Bitnami installer on

AWS Marketplace

4. Connect & configure default settings

BITNAMI SERVER DEFAULT ACCOUNTS

SSH User: User: bitnami Pass: bitnami

MySQL User: root Pass: bitnami

WP Admin: User: user Pass: bitnami

PHP MyAdmin (basic auth) User: administrator Pass: bitnami

Change your default passwords!....not hard to guess what it is!

LETS DO THIS LIVE!!

ENABLE REMOTE ACCESS TO PHPMYADMIN

Ready to go but only accessible locally for extra security! Reference See: http://bitnami.com/faq/virtual_machines

Edit /opt/bitnami/apps/phpmyadmin/conf/phpmyadmin.conf

MOVE WORDPRESS URL UP TO ROOT (/)

Bitnami comes with a built in migration toolsudo /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/updateip --

appurl /

Bitnami installs with WordPress setup as subfolder: http://<domain.com>/wordpress/

THANKS!

Find more guides and videos online at: http://wppowerguide.com http://buildyourwpsite.com

Twitter: @belsien