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Install wordpress

Step 1.Create wp instance

  1. Create ec2 instace to install wp using bitnami ami. we used this ami - this is apache2
  2. You can now ssh to machine and get your credentials by sudo cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_credentials
  3. Login using crendials at http://ip/wp-admin
  4. Follow some inital setup steps here
  5. Install SSL certificate by this command sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool ( Details here ) (redirect http to https)

Step 2 Add cloudfront rules

  1. Go to cloudfront distribution
  2. Add origin -> blog.hcode.tech, Https only
  3. Add behavior -> blog/, point to above origin and redirect http to https and choose Cache policy as CachingDisabled
  4. Add behavior -> blog/*, point to above origin and redirect http to https (Make sure blog/ has higher precedence then blog/*)

Step 3 Update wp-config and rewrite rules

  1. sudo vim /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php and modify below lines
  define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://blog.hcode.tech/blog' );
  define( 'WP_HOME', 'https://www.hcode.tech/blog' );
  1. Modify rewrite rules 2a. Apache2: sudo vim /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/vhosts/wordpress-https-vhost.conf Add below line after the RewriteRule ^bitnami/wordpress(/.*) $1 [L] line
RewriteRule ^blog(/.*) $1 [L]

or 2b. Nginx: sudo vim /opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/wordpress-https-server-block.conf Add below line

rewrite ^/blog(/.*) $1 last;
  1. Finally sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart

Get access to db

to access phpmy-admin, create tunnel

ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 hcode-blog

where hcode-blog is the name of ssh connection

then open: http://127.0.0.1:8888/phpmyadmin/ user: root password is same as application passowrd, accessible at sudo cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_credentials