WordPress install on newly created Nginx 1.18.0-3 stack on LightSail instance

seodigitalma 2020-08-16 20:48:52 UTC #1

Keywords: Nginx - AWS - How to - Other
Description:
I have created a new LightSail instance with Nginx 1.18.0-3 stack. I want to load WordPress on top of the stack. I am following the Install WordPress on top of Nginxv document. The command: cd /opt/bitnami works fine. The second and third command: sudo cp -r docs/demo apps/wordpress, and sudo rm -rf /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ give me file not found errors. Do I need to configure Nginx before installing WordPress? And if so, Where can i find those documents to configure Nginex.

jota 2020-08-17 06:57:37 UTC #2

Hi @seodigitalma,

Thank you for using our solution. You will need to follow this guide to deploy WordPress on top of the NGINX stack

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/nginx/administration/create-custom-application-php/

Please do not forget to read the header note to know if you need to follow the approach A or B in the guide.

seodigitalma 2020-08-17 17:52:33 UTC #4

Jota,

Thank you for the information. I am following the instructions from the document you sent and have already run into a problem.

I am very, very new to setting up servers and am learning thru AWS LightSail and your documents so forgive me in advance for all the questions I will have if I can't figure it out myself.

Following the document, the first step is to find out if I'm using approach A or B. I am using approach A per the output of the server.

I created the sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/myapp.

The second command is assuming that I installed the stack and know the username and group. It was auto-installed by LightSail so not sure what group I'm supposed to use. I am also assuming the username is bitnami. I checked my instance page and can't find anything that is referring to a group.

Below is what I have on the server so far.

Last login: Mon Aug 17 17:02:54 2020 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
bitnami@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx:~$ ls
bitnami_application_password bitnami_credentials stack
bitnami@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx:~$ cd
bitnami@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx:~$ ls
bitnami_application_password bitnami_credentials stack
bitnami@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx:~$ cd stack
bitnami@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx:~/stack$ ls
bnsupport certs git myapp php scripts symfony
bnsupport-regex.ini common gonit nami phpmyadmin server_blocks var
bnsupport-tool ctlscript.sh mariadb nginx properties.ini stats varnish
bitnami@ip-xxx-xx-x-xxx:~/stack$

jota 2020-08-18 06:27:11 UTC #5

Hi @seodigitalma,

Thank you for sharing this feedback with us. We already pinged the documentation team and they will add a note in that guide to clarify it. In this case, the commands you need to run are the following ones

sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/myapp
sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/myapp
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/myapp

Using bitnami:daemon allows you edit the files using the command line (you are the bitnami user) and it also allows the Apache server to read and write in the different files and folders (the Apache server uses the daemon group).

I hope the information is clear now

seodigitalma 2020-08-19 01:04:26 UTC #6

Hi Jota,

I am following the documents and thought I was doing well until I started installing wordpress. I just realized that everywhere it says "myapp" I was supposed to put the app name instead of creating a directory called myapp. It took me a while to figure out why i had to keep creating wordpress directories or files that were supposedly not found. It's a learning curve and i'm having fun with it. I'll go back and delete the "myapp" directory and make sure I have everything named properly.

My next problem is on the wordpress install (https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/install-wordpress-nginx/) the first steps are:

cd /opt/bitnami
sudo cp -r docs/demo apps/wordpress
sudo rm -rf /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/

I skipped this part because on approach A there is no docs/demo apps/wordpress

The next steps worked fine although i had to create the files, but I now why now:

cd /tmp
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar xfvz latest.tar.gz -C /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/
sudo mv /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/wordpress/ /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/

These next steps is where I'm stuck now:

sudo sed -i 's/demo/wordpress/g' /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/conf/nginx-prefix.conf
sudo sed -i 's/demo/wordpress/g' /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/conf/nginx-vhosts.conf

I'm getting a file not found error but i know why. In the setup i put myapp so i have to fix that but my questions is it's referencing the /demo/wordpress file again which i don't have in approach A.

So my question is how do i get the /demo/worpress file?

jota 2020-08-19 11:02:08 UTC #7

Hi @seodigitalma,

The guide you posted is not updated with the latest changes we introduced to the Bitnami NGINX solution, that's why you can't find the demo folder. We will notify the documentation team to update it properly.

However, you can follow the information in the guide I posted some messages above

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/nginx/administration/create-custom-application-php/

The guide uses "myapp" as an example but you can use "wordpress" if you want. You will simply need to edit the commands and the configuration files to use wordpress instead of myapp.

Let us know if you have any questions.

system 2020-09-02 11:02:16 UTC #8

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vikram-bitnami 2020-10-13 08:01:47 UTC #9

We have updated the guide at https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/install-wordpress-nginx/ now. Thanks for letting us know.

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