AWS LightSail with Bitnami Wordpress Installation

This post is about launching a WordPress installation in AWS Lightsail. Here we launch a bitnami WordPress in basic lightsail bundle also use bitnami credentials to login the WordPress console.

• From the Lightsail console home page click Create Instance

AWS LightSail console

• Name the instance myWordpressSite

create instance form

• Click Create instance

instance created

Accessing shell

Now click on the terminal/shell button to access the terminal in the browser.

shell screenshoot

You can also ssh using the pem file which can be downloaded from the account section(see this). If using ssh then the username for WordPress would bitnami.

Get WordPress admin credentials

Once you access the shell in any of the above methods in bitnami home directory we can see bitnami credentials file where the username and password for WordPress admin are situated.

listing files in bitnami home directory

You can see the credentials with cat command

viewing bitnami_credentials file

Now copy the public IP and paste it in browser

Calling public IP in browser

now navigate to /wp-admin

http://<ip>/wp-admin

now this will redirect to login page of wordpress console

WordPress login page

now with the creds from the file, you can log in

WordPress console

So that's it we have now launched a WordPress installation in AWS lightsail. Lightsail also offers several features light CloudFront distribution, static IP, DNS management via lightsail …

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