How to Install WordPress on AWS Lightsail

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that allows you to create and manage a website or blog without any coding knowledge. AWS Lightsail is a cloud hosting service that provides you with a virtual machine (VM) that you can use to host your WordPress website.

This article will show you how to install WordPress on AWS Lightsail. We will cover the following steps:

1. Create a WordPress instance in Lightsail.
2. Connect to your instance via SSH and get the password for your WordPress website.
3. Sign in to the administration dashboard of your WordPress website.
4. Create a Lightsail static IP address and attach it to your WordPress instance.
5. Create a Lightsail DNS zone and map a domain to your WordPress instance.

Step 1: Create a WordPress instance in Lightsail

To create a WordPress instance in Lightsail, you will need to:

1. Sign in to the Lightsail console.
2. On the Instances tab of the Lightsail home page, choose Create instance.
3. Choose the AWS Region and Availability Zone for your instance.
4. Choose your instance image.
5. Choose Linux/Unix as the platform.
6. Choose WordPress as the blueprint.
7. Click Create.

Step 2: Connect to your instance via SSH and get the password for your WordPress website

Once your WordPress instance is created, you must connect to it via SSH. To do this, you will need the SSH key you created when creating your Lightsail account.

Once you are connected to your instance, you can get the password for your WordPress website by running the following command:

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cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_application_password

Step 3: Sign in to the administration dashboard of your WordPress website

Now that you have the password for your WordPress website, you can sign in to the administration dashboard. The URL for the administration dashboard is:

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https://<your-instance-name>.compute.amazonaws.com/wp-admin/

Step 4: Create a Lightsail static IP address and attach it to your WordPress instance

A static IP address is a permanent IP address that will always be assigned to your WordPress instance. This is useful to map a domain to your WordPress instance.

To create a Lightsail static IP address, you will need to:

1. Choose your running WordPress instance on the Instances tab of the Lightsail home page.
2. Choose the Networking tab, then choose Create static IP.
3. Name your static IP, then choose Create.

Once your static IP address is created, you can attach it to your WordPress instance by:

1. Choose your running WordPress instance on the Instances tab of the Lightsail home page.
2. Choose the Networking tab, then choose Attach static IP.
3. Select the static IP address that you want to attach, then choose Attach.

Step 5: Create a Lightsail DNS zone and map a domain to your WordPress instance

Once you have a static IP address for your WordPress instance, you can create a Lightsail DNS zone and map a domain to your instance.

To create a Lightsail DNS zone, you will need to:

1. Choose Create DNS zone on the Lightsail home page’s DNS tab.
2. Enter the domain name you want to map to your WordPress instance, then choose Create.

Once your DNS zone is created, you can map a domain to your WordPress instance by:

1. Choose your DNS zone on the Lightsail home page’s DNS tab.
2. In the Records section, choose Add record.
3. Select the type of record you want to create, then enter the IP address of your WordPress instance.
4. Choose Save.

Once you have mapped a domain to your WordPress instance, you can access your website by entering the domain name in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this article, we showed you how to install WordPress on AWS Lightsail. We covered the following steps:

1. Create a WordPress instance in Lightsail.
2. Connect to your instance via SSH and get the password for your WordPress website.
3. Sign in to the administration dashboard of your WordPress website.
4. Create a Lightsail static.