How to Launch and Configure WordPress Instance in Lightsail? A Step-By-Step Guide
Step 1: Sign up for AWS
- Firstly, navigate to the AWS sign console and login in with your AWS credentials.
- After successfully login, you will be landed on the Console Home. Enter the AWS Lightsail in searchbox and click on it.
Step 2: Create a WordPress instance
- On clicking on the Lightsail service, you will be landed to that page. They you can see create instance button.
- Click on the create instance and choose the WordPress as your blueprint
- Define the name of the instance and click on the create instance.
Step 3: Configure your WordPress instance
- Once, your instance is running, click on its access management dashboard.
- Navigate to the networking tab and configure your instance’s networking settings including the attaching of static IP if needed.
- Then, as a next step go the Connect tab and use the SSH to connect to your instance if you need to make any manual configurations.
Step 4: Get the admin password for your WordPress website
- On the instance management page, click on the Connect using SSH option to access your instance’s command line interface.
- Try on running the command with `cat bitnami_application_password` to retrive the default password for the your wordpress admin user.
Step 5: Sign in to the administration dashboard of your WordPress website
- Now, open the browser and try on accessing the wordpress with entering the public IP address or domain name of your WordPress instance.
- You will be redirected to the WordPress setup page where you can enter your admin username (default: user ) and the password that is obtaineed in the previous step.
- After once you sign up, you will be redirected to the WordPress adminstration dashboard where you can start the customization of your website.
Step 6: Delete the WordPress Instance
After once, completing the usage of WordPress Instance delete the instance, to stop the billing of the AWS Lightsail service.
Amazon Web Services – Introduction to Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Light is an AWS service that provides the a gateway for simplified cloud hosting helping the AWS users. It act as a user-friendly cloud platform that is designed for easy hosting and management of virtual private servers (VPS). With the lightsail service users can quickly develop and manage the VPS instances with options for various operating systems.. It provides a streamlined interface and with predictable pricing. It is an ideal solution for developers, small businesses and startups for the AWS Cloud without having any complexity association with cloud services.
Table of Content
- What is AWS Lightsail?
- What is Amazon EC2?
- AWS Lightsail CLI Commands
- How to Launch and Configure WordPress Instance in Lightsail? A Step-By-Step Guide
- Features of AWS Lightsail
- AWS Lightsail vs Amazon EC2: What are the differences?
- AWS Lightsail vs Beanstalk: What are the differences?
- Advantages of Amazon Lightsail
- Disadvantages of Amazon Lightsail
- AWS Lightsail Pricing
- Amazon Lightsail Use Cases
- Amazon Lightsail – FAQs
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