Install WordPress on Amazon EC2 Free Tier 2025 Method [WORKING]

A quick and dirty how-to install wordpress on an ubuntu 24 imageusing Amazon EC2 virtual machines. Contact me if you need help! Probably not complete.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo systemctl enable apache2
sudo systemctl start apache2

During mysql setup remove all test components and databases and only allow root to localhost this is important

sudo apt install php php-mysql libapache2-mod-php php-cli php-common php-xml php-zip php-curl php-mbstring -y
sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE wordpress;
CREATE USER 'wp_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'wp_user'@'localhost';
EXIT;

cd /tmp
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz

sudo mv wordpress /var/www/html/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wordpress
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/wordpress

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wordpress.conf

#paste this
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
    ServerName your_domain_or_IP_address

    <Directory /var/www/html/wordpress>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wordpress
    ServerName your_domain_or_ip

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain_or_ip/fullchain.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain_or_ip/privkey.pem
    SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/your_domain_or_ip/chain.pem

    <Directory /var/www/html/wordpress>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

then these commands

sudo a2ensite wordpress.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo apt install certbot
sudo apt install python3-certbot-apache

SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/illphated.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/illphated.com/privkey.pem
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/illphated.com/chain.pem

sudo ufw allow in "Apache Full"