Integerating AWS RDS with WordPress πππ
Step1 Creating AWS EC2 instance
Launching the instance β¦.
Now we will be configuring our instance with some softwares
- Update the repos
dnf update -y
- Install the fedora rpm for further softwares that are not available in our repos
dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
We can download the vim editor or we can use vi editor . Here, I am installing vim editor for better user experience
dnf install vim -y
We can download wget software to download any software or packages from internet
dnf install wget -y
Step 2 Configuring the instance with Apache Server
* Installing the httpd software
dnf install httpd -y
* Starting the services
systemctl start httpd
Step 3 Installing the PHP Software
dnf install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm
dnf module install php:remi-7.4
dnf install php-mysqlnd
Step4 Configuring MYSQL Database
* Installing mysql software
dnf install mysql -y
* Connecting to RDS
mysql -h *hostname provided by RDS* -u *usernamewhilecreatingRDS* -p
Now how to Setup your database on AWS
Create a database just like I have created β¦
Step 5 Configuring WordPress
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html
In this file you have to enter your database name ,username , password and database host i.e your endpoint of AWS database