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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux
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6.
Field
Value
Username
Enter a name for your WordPress administrator.
For security purposes, you should choose a
unique name for this user, because it will be
more difficult to exploit than the default user
name, admin.
Password
Enter a strong password, and then enter it again
to confirm. Do not reuse an existing password,
and make sure to store this password in a safe
place.
Your E-mail
Enter the email address you want to use for notifications.
Click Install WordPress to complete the installation.
Congratulations, you should now be able to log into your WordPress blog and start posting entries.
Next Steps
If you have a domain name associated with your EC2 instance's EIP address, you can configure your
blog to use that name instead of the EC2 public DNS address. For more information, see http://
codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL.
You can configure your blog to use different themes and plugins to offer a more personalized experience
for your readers. However, sometimes the installation process can backfire, causing you to lose your
entire blog. We strongly recommend that you create a backup Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of your
instance before attempting to install any themes or plugins so you can restore your blog if anything goes
wrong during installation. For more information, see Creating Your Own AMI (p. 66).
If your WordPress blog becomes popular and you need more compute power, you might consider migrating
to a larger instance type; for more information, see Resizing Your Instance (p. 148). If your blog requires
more storage space than you originally accounted for, you could expand the storage space on your
instance; for more information, see Expanding the Storage Space of an EBS Volume on Linux (p. 593). If
your MySQL database needs to grow, you might consider moving it to Amazon RDS to take advantage
of the service's ability to scale automatically.
For information about WordPress, see the WordPress Codex help documentation at http://
codex.wordpress.org/. For more information about troubleshooting your installation, go to http://
codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Common_Installation_Problems. For information about
making your WordPress blog more secure, go to http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress. For
information about keeping your WordPress blog up-to-date, go to http://codex.wordpress.org/
Updating_WordPress.
Help! My Public DNS Name Changed and now my
Blog is Broken
Your WordPress installation is automatically configured using the public DNS address for your EC2
instance. If you stop and restart the instance, the public DNS address changes (unless it is associated
with an Elastic IP address) and your blog will not work anymore because it references resources at an
address that no longer exists (or is assigned to another EC2 instance). A more detailed description of
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