wordpress

This video assumes that you already have RDS MySQL instance and EC2 Ubuntu instance. If you forgot RDS password, then reset it. This page has help for that: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/reset-master-user-password-rds/

The video also assumes that you already installed Apache2 web server, PHP server scripting language, and related modules. If you haven’t installed them, then use the following command on Ubuntu terminal to install them first.
i. Login to your EC2 machine using putty or any other SSH client
a. Install apache, mysql, php,etc if you don’t have
b. sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

ii. Go to apache htdocs directory: cd /var/www/html

iii. Download the file (get the latest URL from the WordPress website)
sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

iv. unzip and the tar file using the following command: sudo tar -zxvf latest.tar.gz

v. Create a new database on your RDS MySQL server
a. You can do this using phpMyAdmin or Shell command prompt on EC2
b. For Shell command prompt on EC2 here are the steps:
mysql -h pmu-rds.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com -P 3306 -u pmu -p
Replace “pmu-rds.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com” with your RDS instance name
enter the password and login. After you log in to run the SQL command: create database wordpress;

vi. Go the browser and open the wordpress webpage
a. http://your IP Address/wordpress/
b. Follow the steps.