Install Wordpress on AWSLightsail for blogs

Steps performed

Install Apache Web Server

sudo apt update -y

sudo apt install apache2 -y

Install PHP

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt-get update -y

Enable the PHP-FPM module best practice

sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif

sudo a2enconf php8.0-fpm

sudo a2dismod php8.0

sudo systemctl enable php8.0-fpm

sudo service apache2 restart;sudo service php8.0-fpm restart

Install Maria-DB

curl -LsS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash -s -- --mariadb-server-version="mariadb-10.5"

sudo apt install mariadb-server -y

Add permission to website folder and verify same

sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu

sudo chown -R ubuntu:www-data /var/www

sudo chmod 2775 /var/www

find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} ;

find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} ;

Install MySQL

sudo apt install mysql-server

sudo mysql -u root -p

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password by 'Testpassword@123';

CREATE USER 'wp_user'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'Testpassword@123';

CREATE DATABASE wp;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp.* TO 'wp_user'@localhost;

Wordpress finally

cd /tmp wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

tar -xvf latest.tar.gz

sudo mv wordpress/ /var/www/html

sudo systemctl restart apache2