WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Posted on by Melissa Rau

Welcome to Melissa’s Computer Science i/o!

I created this site to showcase that WordPress can be hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services) among my many adventures in Tech. Love IT. 🙂

Steps I took on July 31st, 2023 to make this site live:

  1. Created AWS account.
  2. Created Lightsail Instance in AWS.
  3. Created a WordPress instance in Lightsail.
  4. Connected to the Instance via SSH to get password for the new WordPress site.
  5. Checked the ability to sign in to WP Admin, Success!
  6. Created Lightsail Static IP and pointed it to this WordPress instance.
  7. Added the static IP address of the instance to the A record at the Domain Registrar (Route 53)
  8. Configured the domain registration to use Lightsail’s name servers.
  9. Installed SSL Cert using Bitnami.
  10. and Voilà! MelissaCS.com on AWS exists via https!