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BedRock (WordPress) on Nginx with EC2 + RDS + S3/CloudFront

This is an organic document recorded for learning and future reference purposes.

Required reading before proceeding

• Granting Applications that Run on Amazon EC2 Instances Access to AWS Resources

• Overview of AWS IAM Permissions

One-time Setup

• Install AWS-CLI

• Create Elastic Load Balancer

etc_nginx_sites-available_r4w.md

• http://nginxlibrary.com/wordpress-permalinks/

# You may add here your
# server {
#	...
# }
# statements for each of your virtual hosts to this file

##
# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
# http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration
#
# Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a clean
# file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in sites-enabled.
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
##

server {
	listen 80 default_server;
	listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

	root /home/labs/bedrock/current/web/;
	index index.php index.html index.htm;

	# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
	server_name 54.255.153.55;

	# location / {
        #        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
        # }

        # error_page 404 /404.html;

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
              root /home/labs/bedrock/current/web/;
        }

	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
	
	location ~ ^/assets/(img|js|css|fonts)/(.*)$ {
 	 	try_files $uri $uri/ /wp-content/themes/roots/assets/$1/$2;
	}

	location ~ ^/plugins/(.*)$ {
  		try_files $uri $uri/ /wp-content/plugins/$1;
	}

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;                
        }

	# Got this from my gist.github.com
	# set $dir "";
 	#  if ($request_uri ~ ^/([^/]*)/.*$ ) {
        #	set $dir1 /$1;
  	# }
   	#  location / {
        #	try_files $uri $uri/  $dir1/index.php?$args;
    	# }

	location / {
 		 index index.php index.html index.htm;
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
	}

	# location / {
	# First attempt to serve request as file, then
	# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
	# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
	# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
	# }

	# Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied requests
	#location /RequestDenied {
	#	proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;    
	#}

	#error_page 404 /404.html;

	# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
	#
	#error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
	#location = /50x.html {
	#	root /usr/share/nginx/html;
	#}

	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
	#
	#location ~ \.php$ {
	#	fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
	#	# NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
	#
	#	# With php5-cgi alone:
	#	fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
	#	# With php5-fpm:
	#	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
	#	fastcgi_index index.php;
	#	include fastcgi_params;
	#}

	# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
	# concurs with nginx's one
	#
	#location ~ /\.ht {
	#	deny all;
	#}
}


# another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
#
#server {
#	listen 8000;
#	listen somename:8080;
#	server_name somename alias another.alias;
#	root html;
#	index index.html index.htm;
#
#	location / {
#		try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
#	}
#}


# HTTPS server
#
#server {
#	listen 443;
#	server_name localhost;
#
#	root html;
#	index index.html index.htm;
#
#	ssl on;
#	ssl_certificate cert.pem;
#	ssl_certificate_key cert.key;
#
#	ssl_session_timeout 5m;
#
#	ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
#	ssl_ciphers "HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5 or HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5:!3DES";
#	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
#
#	location / {
#		try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
#	}
#}

rvm.md

I had some complication when installing RVM on a fresh EC2 instance. Turned out when I do

$ echo $SHELL

I got /bin/sh. So I had to switch to /bin/bash and RVM installation was smooth.

http://superuser.com/questions/231735/how-do-i-change-my-default-shell-from-bash-to-zsh