Category Archives: Wordpress

Free HTTPS Setup on EC2 with Certbot

Setting up HTTPS was very easy. It was just a matter of upgrading to Amazon Linux 2 AMI. Follow the Install a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux 2 instructions. Follow the Configure Apache Web Server on Amazon Linux 2 to Use SSL/TLS instructions.

Thank you to Let’s Encrypt for providing their free service which will save me thousands of dollars, and the Electronic Frontier Organization for setting up CertBot.

Getting Started with WordPress

This WordPress site was setup on an Amazon AMI micro-instance using the instructions at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/hosting-wordpress.html

However, the latest version of WordPress required httpd 2.4 and PHP 7.0. To install these versions substitute the following commands:

Shell

sudo yum install httpd24 php70 php70-mysqlnd

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sudo yum install httpd24 php70 php70-mysqlnd