Installing and running WordPress on Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 + WP

// switch to root user
sudo su


// install Apache
apt-get install apache2

// install PHP and related modules
apt-get install php5
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5


// if PHP install fails then use apt-get update and repeat the installation process

// restart Apache to pick up the changes
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart


// create a test PHP file to check PHP config
cd /var/www/
vi mytest.php


// install MySQL 
apt-get install mysql-server


// install related PHP - MySQL modules
apt-get install php5-mysql
apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

// install PHP MyAdmin 
apt-get install phpmyadmin

// configure Apache to access PHP MyAdmin
ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

// download and extract WP in the directory
cd 
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz -C /var/www

// move files from "wordpress" directory to root
cp -avr /var/www/wordpress/* /var/www

// remove the empty directory
rm -rf /var/www/wordpress

// read - write access to Apache user
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R 755 www-data /var/www

// enable htaccess and rewrite rules
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

// replace "AllowOverride None" with "AllowOverride All"

// restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

// continue with WP installation. :-)