Cloud Setup

Setup WordPress on Google Cloud Platform

Create an instance
- Project Name
- Boot disk (Ubuntu or Debian)
- Firewall: Allow traffic
- get External IP
SSH into External IP
- ssh <USERNAME>@<EXTERNAL_IP> -i ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine
Download WordPress and unzip
- tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
Install tools for WordPress via root
- mv wp-config-sample.php $ wp-config.php
- edit wp-config.php
  - DB_NAME -> wpdb
  - DB_USER -> wpadmin
  - DB_PASSWORD -> root
  - Update salts
- sudo su
Install Apache
- apt-get update && $ apt-get install apache2
- service apache2 status
- sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  - change <Directory /var/www/> to <Directory /home/<username>/wordpress/>
  - AllowOverride Yes
- sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
  - change DocumentRoot /var/www/html to DocumentRoot /home/<username>/wordpress
Install php
- sudo apt-get install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
- php -v
Change WordPress ownership permission so apache can access it
- sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wordpress/
- sudo service apache2 restart
- sudo service apache2 status
Install MySQL
- apt-get install mysql-server
- mysql_secure_installation
- Enter into mysql
  - mysql -u root -p then type root's password
  - CREATE USER 'wpadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'
  - create database wpdb;
  - GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'wpadmin'@'localhost';