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Setting up a WordPress site on AWS

This tutorial walks through setting up AWS infrastructure for WordPress, starting at creating an AWS account. We'll manually provision a single EC2 instance (i.e an AWS virtual machine) to run WordPress using Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL.

This tutorial assumes you're relatively comfortable on the command line and editing system configuration files. It is intended for folks who want a high-level of control and understanding of their infrastructure. It will take about half an hour if you don't Google away at some point.

If you experience any difficulties or have any feedback, leave a comment. 🐬

Coming soon: I'll write another tutorial on a high availability setup for WordPress on AWS, including load-balancing multiple application servers in an auto-scaling group and utilizing RDS.

santoshachari

# Install linux update, followed by GCC and Make
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum install -y gcc make

# Install Nginx and php56-FPM
sudo yum install -y nginx php56-fpm

# Install php56 extensions
sudo yum install -y php56-devel php-mysql php56-pdo php56-pear php56-mbstring php56-cli php56-odbc php56-imap php56-gd php56-xml php56-soap