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Configuring WordPress With AWS

Create The Database Schema

# create the new schema
CREATE SCHEMA cybertooth_io;
# create a new user for any host with the supplied password
CREATE USER 'cybertooth_io'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '[SOME_PASSWORD]';
# grant all privileges on the new schema for the new user
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON cybertooth_io.* TO 'cybertooth_io'@'%';

Create Certbot Certificate

Before you even run the following command you must have the appropriate DNS records in place so that Certbot can verify the common name that you supply.

sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto --authenticator standalone --installer apache --pre-hook "service httpd stop" --post-hook "service httpd start"
  1. You'll be asked for the common name you want on the certificate. Make sure it matches your DNS name for the server.
  2. When asked what to do with the ssl.conf, have everything redirect to https (the second option at time of writing this).

Open Website In Browser

wp_config.php Changes

cd /var/www/html

# this configuration constant prevents WordPress from auto-magically updating
wp config set --type=constant --raw AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED true

# these configuration constants are for the "WP Mail SMTP"; puts our AWS SMTP
# password into a filesystem configuration file rather than the database in plaintext
# these credentials belong to the AWS IAM user named `aws_ses_mail_user`
wp config set --type=constant --raw WPMS_ON true
wp config set --type=constant WPMS_SMTP_PASS [AWS_SMTP_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY]

# these configuration constants are used to access the S3 bucket for media asset uploads
# these credentials come from the AWS IAM user named `wordpress-s3`
wp config set --type=constant DBI_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID [S3_ACCESS_KEY]
wp config set --type=constant DBI_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY [S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY]

Install Some Useful Plugins

cd /var/www/html
wp plugin delete akismet hello
wp plugin install wp-mail-smtp velvet-blues-update-urls ga-google-analytics wordpress-seo amazon-web-services amazon-s3-and-cloudfront merge-minify-refresh

Make sure to reset permissions on the wp-content folder:

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wp-content
sudo chmod 2775 /var/www/html/wp-content
find /var/www/html/wp-content -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;