Oct 17, 2018
Update:
I no longer use Bitnami on AWS LightSail due to the steps required to get sane application behaviour and performance are not worth it. Leaving this up for any searches leading here and will recommend for a similar level of serviced hosting, try DigitalOcean or Vultr.
Tired of clunkily updating a GitHub gist, herein lie my notes used when provisioning an AWS LightSail instance with Bitnami WordPress for quick migration/debugging of an existing user’s WordPress site.
copy public key via the virtual terminal in AWS Console
set a DNS entry to point dev domain to the instance’s IP
access site at dev domain
rm bitnami banner
sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/bnconfig --disable_banner 1
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
SSH in using dev domain
sudo mkdir /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt
cd /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt
sudo wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
sudo chmod a+x ./certbot-auto
sudo ./certbot-auto
sudo ./certbot-auto certonly --webroot -w /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ -d example.com
sudo ln -s /etc/letsencrypt/live/[DOMAIN]/fullchain.pem /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt
sudo ln -s /etc/letsencrypt/live/[DOMAIN]/privkey.pem /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key
Make sure that the certificate file name and path is correct. If you receive an error that file already exists, use the below command to rename the files:
mv /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/serverkey.old
mv /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/servercrt.old
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
adjust wp-config to use https
sed -i 's/http/https/' /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php
sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
force https in top of file: /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/conf/httpd-prefix.conf
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
Restart server to enforce https
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
backup wp-config somewhere
sudo cp /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/wp-config-backup-randstring.php
disable mod pagespeed
sudo vim /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/pagespeed.conf
ModPagespeed on > ModPagespeed off
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
copy existing site’s files into WP dir
backup existing wp-config
sudo cp /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/user-original-wp-config-backup-randstring.php
restore Bitnami’s wp-config
copy any custom define’s or code from existing wp-config
import users DB
delete bitnami_wordpress
create bitnami_wordpress
import .sql
rewrite any hard links within DB
sudo wp --allow-root search-replace 'OLD.domain.com' 'NEW.wp2static.com'
change admin user email and pwd
sudo wp --allow-root user update 1 --user_pass="PASSWORD"
rewrite any hard links within site (optional, careful of mailto links, etc)
find -name '*.css' -exec sed -i 's/OLD.domain.com/NEW.wp2static.com/g' {} +
reset file permissions
sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
sudo find /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
sudo find /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
also php-fpm restart sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm
enable debugging
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
tailing WP logs
tail -f /opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/error_log
connect to db
mysql -u bn_wordpress -p bitnami_wordpress # and pwd from wp-config
check plugin options
select * from wp_options where option_name = 'wp-static-html-output-options' \G;
working_directory option can persist the old sever’s pathsmodify PHP ini
max_execution_time alreadysudo vim opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini
Basic Auth
https://docs.bitnami.com/google/apps/wordpress-multisite/administration/use-htpasswd/
less noisy error log
sudo echo 'ErrorLogFormat "\n \"%M\" \n "' >> /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
^ needed re-rediting to affect the CR’s, look to fix
(70007) The timeout specified has expired errors from proxy_fcgi:error:https://stackoverflow.com/a/38711063/1668057
Timeout 900 ->
in /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
import vim and tmux confs
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/leonstafford/6891b76aeaf43766dd52676d6bed1b08/raw/9979e28a9abf07af94b505d35ff9a4eb3da7cb9f/.tmux.conf --output ~/.tmux.conf
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/leonstafford/39333da3399adee7e88cb869b4685dff/raw/5e6e7b7fb834d996763da3d358d949d309691350/.vimrc --output ~/.vimrc
not working without additional domain verification overrides:
sudo apt install sendmailsudo vim opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.inisendmail_path = "env -i /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i"sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apacheRelated categories:
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