ITC561 Cloud Computing: Secure WordPress Deployment on AWS

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ITC561 - CLOUD COMPUTING -
ASSESSMENT ITEM 3

Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Creating WordPress Instance on AWS (Amazon Web Services)? 4
WordPress Website that contains complete instructions with the screenshots? 14
How to secure your WordPress site? 18
How to provide users with secure access to your WordPress site? 19
Conclusion 20
References 21
Table of Figures
Figure 1: Amazon Machine Image page 4
Figure 2: Selection of AMI 5
Figure 3: Setting AMI Machine 5
Figure 4: Instance Launching 1 6
Figure 5: Instance Launching 2 6
Figure 6: Selecting Keypair 7
Figure 7: Launching Status 1 7
Figure 8: Launching Status 2 8
Figure 9: Resources of Allocation 8
Figure 10: Selecting IPV4 Address 9
Figure 11: Address Association 9
Figure 12: Associate Address 10
Figure 13: Allocation of New Address 10
Figure 14: Log Access of System 11
Figure 15: System Log's Password 11
Figure 16: Login Page of WordPress 12
Figure 17: Dashboard of WordPress 12
Figure 18: Responses to Website 13
Figure 19: Response to Website 13
Figure 20: Home Page 14
Figure 21: About us Page 1 15
Figure 22: About Us Page 2 15
Figure 23: Communication Form 1 16
Figure 24: Communication Form 2 17
Figure 25: Communication Form 3 17
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Introduction
In today’s world, almost every organization has to make its documents or tasks performed
online. There were some risks for providing information online such as it can be crashed easily.
So, there is an AWS Cloud which helps to solve many major issues and also provide many
updated features that fulfill the requirements related to the business. In this assessment, the
WordPress website will be developed with acquiring complete requirements of users (Sebastian,
2017).
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Creating WordPress Instance on AWS (Amazon Web Services)?
1. This page contains various types of machine images where the user can select any of
them.
Figure 1: Amazon Machine Image page
2. Select AMI of WordPress from the AMI of Community
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Figure 2: Selection of AMI
3. Configure details of instance for the required setup steps.
Figure 3: Setting AMI Machine
4. Configuration of instance launching 1
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Figure 4: Instance Launching 1
1. Configuration of instance launching 2
Figure 5: Instance Launching 2
2. Proceed without entering key and click on the launch instance.
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Figure 6: Selecting Keypair
7. Showing the launching status of the instance which is initializing the setup.
Figure 7: Launching Status 1
8. Launching status where it displays the message that your status is now launching.
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Figure 8: Launching Status 2
9. After launching the instance successfully, the address is to be allocated for the instance.
Figure 9: Resources of Allocation
10. Select allocation of the new address for the allocation of running machine.
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Figure 10: Selecting IPV4 Address
11. Click on the Associate button for address allocation.
Figure 11: Address Association
12. Associate address request was succeeded for address allocation.
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Figure 12: Associate Address
13. The new address is request was succeeded for the allocation of the new address.
Figure 13: Allocation of New Address
14. For launching the website of WordPress, there was a requirement of a log system that
contains WordPress password, select Action and then system log option.
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Figure 14: Log Access of System
15. Username and the password is written in the log file of the system.
Figure 15: System Log's Password
16. User has to enter the login credentials of WordPress.
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Figure 16: Login Page of WordPress
17. It shows the dashboard of the website.
Figure 17: Dashboard of WordPress
18. It shows the response history of the website in the dashboard of WordPress.
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