WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux EC2 Micro Instance, For Free

I’ve been wanting to get a write up done for WordPress on AWS, the fact that it is free for a year, since they’ve released the free-tier many months ago. Well I finally got around to it, however it isn’t a write up. I went ahead and put the work in to produce a video of the steps for setup & configuration. Enjoy.

The commands to install php, mysql, httpd (apache), and manipulate the config files are included below for copy and paste needs.

Create a Linux Instance on AWS – create & assign an IP Address
Login with ‘ec2-user’
sudo -i
lsof -i
yum -y install httpd
service httpd start
yum -y install php mysql
yum install mysql-server
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
yum install phpmyadmin
vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
Hit insert hey to make changes to the conf file.
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# Web application to manage MySQL
# Order Deny,Allow
# Deny from all
Allow from all
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /mysqladmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
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service httpd restart
service mysqld start
/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'somepassword’
vi /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
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[...] /* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http’;
[...]
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Watch the video for the WordPress Database creation in mysql w/ phpmyadmin.
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
cp -avr /var/www/html/wordpress/* /var/www/html/
rm -rf /var/www/html/wordpress/
cd /etc/httpd/conf
vi httpd.conf
Find the user here… it should be ‘apache’
cp /var/www/html/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/wp-config.php
vi /var/www/html/wp-config.php
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');


/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'wordpressuser');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');




Add the database settings.
chown -R apache /var/www/html
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html