How to Setup PHP7 WordPress Blog on AWS EC2

Howto Setup PHP7 WordPress Blog on AWS EC2 from scratch it includes:

1. Launching your EC2 instance
2. Allocating an elastic IP (optional)
3. Installing wordpress
4. A few tips and gotchas

** This post shows how to do this upgrade from scratch on AWS to a clean LAMP PHP 7 stack install **

Continue through to launch instance.

Allocate elastic IP.

http://54.89.55.130/

Connect via SSH (using your .pem key)
ssh -i C:/Users/Deering/Desktop/keys/destin.pem [email protected]

Install WordPress module

sudo su –

cd /tmp

wget https://downloads.bitnami.com/files/stacks/wordpress/4.5.2-0/bitnami-wordpress-4.5.2-0-module-linux-x64-installer.run

chmod a+x bitnami-wordpress-4.5.2-0-module-linux-x64-installer.run

./bitnami-wordpress-4.5.2-0-module-linux-x64-installer.run

mySQL pass: bitnami

http://54.89.55.130/wordpress/

Change /wordpress to root url.
Also enable FTP by uncommenting ftp pass line.

vim /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php

run this:
sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/updateip –appurl /

//change server to enable update of plugins
sudo chown -Rf daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs
sudo usermod -a -G daemon bitnami

Done.