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WordPress Automation with Custom AMI

Mihir — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:01:33 +0000

WordPress Automation with Custom AMI

Launch the free tier Amazon Linux 2 and Connect to the instance using Instance Connect (Enable SSH/22 & HTTP/80 from anywhere IPv4)
Create authentication variables necessary for WordPress Database
Install Apache HTTPD, MariaDB and PHP dependencies Code
Set the services to enable during boot and start the service
Set Mariadb Root Password
Install latest version for WordPress
Configure WordPress to follow the authentication variables set during step 2 and change the owner permissions for the files Code
Create the Wordpress Database
Go to http://public_ipv4_address to ensure WordPress installation
Create a banner using cowsay
Inside the 40-cow file insert commands
Change permissions for the file to be read and executed by everyone Code
Apply update
Reboot and ensure the banner and final WordPress application
Stop the instance and Create an image from the Stopped Instance
- Name: WordPressAMIAutomation
- Create Image
Ensure Snapshot and AMI creation.
Launch a custom instance from the WordPressAMIAutomation AMI
Configuration wizard allows hardware changes for custom VPC, harddisk space and advanced configuration such as security group configuration
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Login instance using Instance Connect
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Go to http://public_ipv4_address to ensure WordPress automated installation.
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Mihir — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 03:25:23 +0000

Hello Amazing people 👋 Here's a JavaScript application I built based on Docker containerized services for user-profile management purposes.

    http://localhost:8081

    http://localhost:3000

That's it, the Docker-based User-Profile handler JS Application is up and running!🥳

Feel free to add as many entries as you want, which can all be managed with the mongo-express dashboard.

Mihir — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:48:15 +0000

Hello Amazing people 👋 Here's a beginner friendly project to get-started with public cloud services

Some prerequisities: Basic Understanding of linux commands, networking and cloud

  ssh -i <key-pair.pem file> ec2-user@<instance public ipv4 address>

  sudo dnf install httpd -y && sudo systemctl start httpd

Install the latest mariadb database server setup with dnf package manager command

  sudo dnf install mariadb-server -y

  sudo systemctl start mariadb && mysql_secure_installation

  sudo dnf module enable php:7.4 && sudo dnf install php

  sudo systemctl start php-fpm && sudo systemctl restart httpd php-fpm

Go to /phpinfo.php to ensure php module installation. If you are not able to view phpinfo webpage, ensure the file is in the correct directory, or create one with terminal

That's it, the LAMP Server is up and running!🥳

If you want to have a more detailed step-by-step procedure, please checkout my Github page or feel free to to reach out on Twitter.