How to Create a WordPress Site on AWS

This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to create a WordPress site on AWS. It includes instructions on launching an instance, configuring it, and accessing the site. It also covers customization options and tips for securing the site. The article is relevant for individuals or organizations planning to migrate their services and applications to the public cloud.

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Overview of DTGOV case
DTGOV is one of companies which wants to migrate some of its webservers to IaaS
instance in AWS so as it can tests its cloud migration. This means that the organization need to
have a complete plan before it migrates. DTGOV is a public company which specialized in
Information Technology services for all public sector organizations. The company was created in
early 1980s by ministry of social security. The organization provides autonomous management
structure for companies to evolve and govern its IT enterprise. At the creation of DTGOV
Company it had over one thousand employees in over sixty different localities in the US. The
company operated two mainframe-based data centers. Since then the organization has expanded
to more than three thousand employees with different branches in over three hundred different
localities. In addition the company has about three different data centers which were running
X86 platform and main frame environments (Mahmood, 2011). This report will address some
aspects of cloud technologies as DTGOV is planning to migrate some of its services and
applications to public cloud. Specifically this paper will highlight how DTGOV can create a
WordPress site on AWS where staff members can share the issues and experiences.
How to create a WordPress instance on AWS
Step one: Open AWS Management Console (as shown by the figure below)
Figure 1: AWS Management console login page

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Step 2: Launch the E2 management console by clicking the launch instance (this is as shown by
figure 2 below)
Figure 2: EC2 management console
Step 3: Select WordPress and choosing the type of virtual server that one wants as shown by the
figure three below
Figure 3: Selecting the type of virtual server

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Step 4: Configure the AWS instance as shown by figure 4
Figure 4: Configuring the instance
Step 5: Add storage and tags
Step 6: Launch the console status (Shown by the figure below)
Figure 5: Launch status

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Step 7: Click and view console instance
Figure 6: Instances which have been created
Step 8: Run the WordPress site by running the public address of the site. For this case is
3.80.46.211 which after running the site it will be as shown below
Figure 7: The newly created blog

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Step 9: Log into the WordPress site. To do this you only need to enter by entering public ip
address and typing admin extension example in this case 3.80.46.211/admin and the following
will appear as shown by the screenshot below (figure 8) will appear
Figure 8: WordPress admin login
Step 10: Get the username and password by clicking actions in the AWS management console
then selecting account settings and then system logs and scroll down until you see password and
username. In here one can get the username and password. This is as shown by the figure 9
below

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Figure 9: Getting the username and password
Step 11: Login into the WordPress site by entering the password and username which in this case
the password is xOw5aW8AFOWc and username is use, WordPress dashboard appears as shown
by figure 10.

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Figure 10: WordPress dashboard
Customizing WordPress Site
Step 1: Customizing the WordPress site: click settings and then general settings as shown the
figure below
Figure 11: customizing the general settings

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Step 2: Creating a theme
 Click appearance and then themes ( As shown by the figure 12 below)
 Choose the theme you want (Shown by figure 13; the theme selected)
Figure 12: WordPress themes
Figure 13: Theme selected

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Step 3: Adding media or photos into the site: click media and then add a photo as shown by the
figure below
Figure 14: Adding photos into the site
Step 4: Adding comments into the WordPress site. Click on pages then quick edit and allows
comments. This is a shown by the figure below
Figure 14: Setting comments

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Some of the photos added in the site are as shown by the figures
Figure 15: Added image one
Figure 16: Added mage two

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Figure 15: Added image three

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The overall created site is as shown by the figures below with two links
Figure 16: The look of the created site image one
Figure 17: The look of the created site

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Figure 18: The look of the newly created site
How to secure a WordPress site
To start with site has built-in security myth. Currently, wordpress sites are more secure
than any other site. Here is how to secure one WordPress site. First one needs to secure the
wordpress login page. This that page wit /wp-admin/ extension. To do this one need to customize
the login page url and the page interaction. This is the responsibility of the website owner. By
doing so one will have protected the site from brute force from of attack. To do so; one need to
website lockdown feature and ban all the users. Second one can utilize two factor authentication
module in the login page. In here the user of the site is required to produce two different login
details. This can be a password followed by a secret question and a set of characters. Other
methods to secure one site is the use the requirement of an email to login. Using an email address
instead of username is more secure than the use of usernames. The third method is renaming the
login URL i.e. need change the wp-login.php to my_new_registration. Other methods is to adjust

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one passwords and logging out idle users from the site. Also it is very important to secure one
WordPress site through the admin dashboard by protecting the WP-admin directory by password
protecting the wp-admin directory. Other methods is using SSL so as encrypt data (Moore, 2013)
How to provide users with secure access to WordPress site
There are various methods to provide users with secure access to one WordPress site.
One of the most common method which is also utilized by Bloomberg LEI is issuing Entity
identifiers to users. By doing this users can manage their details and registration for their
corporation’s LEI. Second one needs to be always updating everything in the WordPress site.
Always prompt your users to use complex passwords; using pets and nicknames is not enough.
The password provided by the users’ needs to be very unique and it has to be long. Third can use
the iTheme security to stop any form of automated attacks and the bulletproof security which
adds firewall security, login security and database security (Silver, 2010).

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