#“From Zero to Web2Ireland using Wordpress on Digital Mines in 15 mins”
We decided to move Web2Ireland.org over to Digital Mines for AWS hosting. I'm a big fan of how easy Digital Mines has made the deployment of Amazon servers. I thought it might be useful to show the steps to get a Wordpress blog up and running with such a setup.
Note this doesn't include the incredibly simple steps to sign-up for Digital Mines itself and to click "Deploy" to get your server. All of the steps below were carried out in Putty on Windows connected by SSH to the deployed server.
- Setup Apache, MySQL and PHP
sudo tasksel
Select LAMP server
Give a root password for MySQL when asked - Create directory for Wordpress
cd /var/www
sudo mkdir vhosts
cd vhosts/
sudo mkdir blahblahblah.com
cd blahblahblah.com - Get and uncompress Wordpress
sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
sudo apt-get install unzip
sudo unzip latest.zip
sudo rm latest.zip
sudo chown -R www-data.www-data *
cd wordpress/
sudo mv * ..
cd ..
sudo rm -rf wordpress/ - Create a database for Wordpress
mysql -u root -p
create database blahblah;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON blahblah.* TO "blahblahuser"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "blahblahpassword";quit; - Tell Wordpress about the Database
sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
sudo vim wp-config.php
Edit the database details in that file - Configure Apache
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
sudo cp 000-default blahblahblah.com
sudo rm 000-default
sudo vim blahblahblah.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin conor@blahblah.com
ServerName blahblahblah.com
ServerAlias www.blahblahblah.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/blahblahblah.com
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/blahblahblah.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost> - Setup URL rewriting
sudo vim /var/www/vhosts/blahblahblah.com/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule>
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart - Install APC for improved performance
sudo apt-get install php-apc
cd /etc/php5/conf.d
sudo vim apc.ini
extension=apc.so
apc.enabled=1
apc.enable_cli=1
apc.shm_segments=1
apc.shm_size=32
apc.cache_by_default=1
apc.stat=1 - Restart Apache sudo service apache2 restart
Outside of that we had to:
- Move DNS servers from old provider to DNSMadeEasy
- Add an entry to AuthSMTP to handle email sending
- Do a Database Import/Export from existing Web2Ireland server
- Copy over theme files and old uploads from existing Web2Ireland server
Obviously you want to install other performance doo-dahs like Donncha's WP-Supercache too.
Done!
If you want to know the couple of steps to get Putty talking to your server, let me know in the comments.