How to Host a WordPress Website for Free on AWS

Install Apache

1) apt install apache2

2) systemctl status apache2

Install Mariadb
1) sudo apt install mariadb-server

2) sudo mysql_secure_installation

Install PHP & Dependancies

sudo apt install php php-mysql
sudo apt install php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap php-intl php-zip

Configure Database

1) mysql -u root -p

2) CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;

3) CREATE USER ‘wp_user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;

4) GRANT ALL ON wordpress_db.* TO ‘wp_user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;

5) FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

6) Exit;

Install WordPress

1) cd /tmp && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

2) tar -xvf latest.tar.gz

3) cp -R wordpress /var/www/html/

4) chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/

5) chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress/

6) mkdir /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads

7) chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/

Configure virtualhosts
cp

Check apache configuration
sudo apache2ctl configtest

Disable Default site
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf

Enable New site
sudo a2ensite example.com.conf

Install Certbot
sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache

Install SSL Certificate
sudo certbot –apache

Check Autorenewal of SSL
sudo systemctl status certbot.timer