WordPress powered by Bitnami
Bitnami WordPress is a pre-configured, ready to run image for running WordPress on Amazon EC2. WordPress is one of the worlds most popular web publishing platforms for building blogs and websites. It can be customized via a wide selection of themes, extensions and plug-ins. See more
It worked great on my first try!
Having installed WordPress before on a different server (non-AWS), I wasn't exactly looking forward to going through all the hassle of setting it up with its dependencies like SQL. I was pleasantly surprised with the Bitnami experience. The rough stuff was already completed. All I had to do was get my user password -- which is well-documented on how to do that -- and then login to my already operational WordPress. I didn't have to mess around with a command line interface for any of this to work.
Password?
Everything was OK until I had to find the password.. theorically in the system log, but it wasnt there! Something basic. Ok, I was running this ami for selftrainign purposes, not really a problem, but if someones wants to use it professionally they will claim for a solution.
Not good--
Some one gave it 4 stars. I gave 2 star. And why do I have to put out 20 words for a products that is holding back the procedure or the manual how to for customer?
file permission wordpress plugin problem
You face file permission problem with wordpress and it's plugins. Some of them can't create folders and files. You can't change style (css). Google's PageSpeed module for apache is installed and turned on, that can be unexpected and unwilling.
Nice WordPress stack
This is a nicely executed WordPress stack. I needed an instance for some tests. This gave me a quickly accessible server. I was able to easily copy PHP files and import a MySQL database from a different WordPress instance to run tests.
After our tests were done, we terminated the instance. I'll definitely use it again when the need for a WordPress server arises.
Making life easier
I've been using bitnami stacks for several years now but this is the first time I've used them on AWS. As usual everything I want/need is there making it one of the quickest ways to get up and running with your chosen stack.
Without problems
No problem setting this up in five minutes, it was really easy. The pw is in the log almost at the end
Easy to Understand and Quick to Deploy
This is great: Super easy to install and very well documented in easy-to-understand language. If you need a fully setup version of Wordpress, this is the ticket. I highly recommend this AMI.
Does what it does with no muss no fuss
I needed to spool up a Wordpress for a customer to be handled by another party, and as such needed to keep configurations and the like to a bare minimum.
I knew I could count on Bitnami to get me what I needed!
Pretty impressed!
Had to use this in a rush when I didn't have time to set up my own AMI or secure a server from scratch. I'm super impressed.
This thing is secure and much faster than I thought, even on a micro.
I think the latest version has some conflicting documentation about where the WP password is (I couldn't find it) but they have a CLI app that resets it for you which is the route I took.
Add in some 2FA yourself and you've got a pretty decent setup. I honestly couldn't have built a better AMI myself, even in a day.
If you're running Wordpress and don't want to fiddle with the server setup, this is what you're looking for. As simple as it gets.
