Configure the domain name
Configure and test that your domain name really points to your server.
Create the MySQL database on Amazon RDS
A fast and easy tool to create a new MySQL database on Amazon RDS is the free MySQL Workbench
Create root folder
NB: Replace example.com with your domain
cd /var/www/
Then create the domain
mkdir example.com
Change to the root folder
cd /var/www/example.com
Create Apache virtual host
cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
Use a old config file as a template
sudo cp 01-existing-domain.com.conf 02-example.com.conf
Open the new config file to edit
sudo nano 02-example.com.conf
Replace all occurrences of existing-domain.com with example.com
Activate the new configuration file
sudo a2ensite 02-example.com.conf
Restart Apache to activate the new virtual host
sudo service apache2 restart
Install WordPress
Update WP-CLI
wp cli update
Download wordpress
wp core download
Generate the config file named wp-config.php
NB: Replace: dbname, user, dbpassword and dbhost with your values.
wp core config --dbname=wordpress --dbuser=user --dbpass=password --dbhost=dcfgvr.1bagob.0002.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com --dbprefix=wp_ --skip-check
Install WordPress
NB: Replace URL, Blog Title, adminuser, password, and e-mail with your values.
wp core install --url="https://www.example.com" --title="Blog Title" --admin_user="adminuser" --admin_password="password" --admin_email="email@domain.com"
Change file and folder permissions
NB: Replace “/var/www/html/” with the path to your root folder.
sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/html/ && sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/html/ && sudo find /var/www/html/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; && sudo find /var/www/html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; && sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/ && sudo usermod -aG www-data ubuntu && sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html/ && sudo chmod 660 /var/www/html/wp-config.php
Test that everything works correctly.