Learn how to set up WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) through my step-by-step guides and personal experiences. In this category, I’ll share how I built my website using AWS, from creating an EC2 instance to setting up a database and securing the site. Follow along with easy-to-understand tutorials and tips that help make hosting WordPress on AWS a little less daunting. Perfect for beginners and anyone interested in learning how to get started with AWS for WordPress hosting.
Restoring Visitor IPs on Amazon Linux 2023 When you use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy in front of Apache, the IP address recorded by the server is Cloudflare’s proxy IP rather than the original visitor’s IP. In Amazon Linux 2023, mod_remoteip is installed and running by default, so we only need to update the configuration, … Read more
How to Set Swap Memory on an EC2 Instance Amazon EC2 instances typically don’t come with pre-configured swap space, as they’re usually optimized to use only RAM. However, you can manually add swap space by following some steps. Based on my experience, I use an EC2 t2.micro free tier instance with 1GB RAM. Sometimes when … Read more
I switched my DNS provider from Amazon Route 53 to Cloudflare. The primary reason for this migration was Cloudflare’s free plan offers, with DDoS protection, WAF, and CDN. In this post, I’ll walk you through the steps I took to make the transition and share tips for avoiding common pitfalls along the way. Since I … Read more
An example script to create a new post using the REST API: If you encounter an errors, try directly excess to REST API end point using curl or browser. For my case, ‘https://bhinvestment.net/wp-json/wp/v2/posts’ works perfectly fine in browser, while it doesn’t work with curl. The solution for me is adding ‘www’. Why? The three possible … Read more
Error Message from Certbot This post is base on Amazon Linux 2023. When requesting a certificate for example.com, you might see an error similar to this: Requesting a certificate for example.comUnable to find a virtual host listening on port 80 which is currently needed for Certbot to prove to the CA that you control your … Read more
Step 1: Install Apache and mod_ssl First, ensure that Apache and the mod_ssl module are installed to enable HTTPS support: Start Apache and enable it to run on boot: Step 2: Install Certbot Certbot is the tool that will help you automatically obtain and manage SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt: Step 3: Obtain an SSL … Read more
When WordPress on an EC2 instance asks for FTP credentials to install plugins, it typically means that WordPress doesn’t have permission to write to the plugins directory directly. You can bypass the need for FTP credentials by modifying the permissions or updating the configuration file. 1. Bypass FTP by Modifying wp-config.php Connect to your EC2 … Read more
In this post, I’ll walk you through how to install WordPress on an EC2 instance using Amazon Linux 2023. While most tutorials cover Ubuntu, this post focuses on Amazon Linux (AL), which is optimized for AWS and offers better performance on EC2 compared to other operating systems like Ubuntu. AL is Amazon’s own Linux distribution … Read more