Use the wordpress-ha.json template to create a fault tolerant and scalable Wordpress environment within minutes.

This template depends on other templates.

• VPC stack with at least two public and private subnets

• EC2: virtual servers running Apache serving Wordpress (PHP application)
• RDS: highly available MySQL database
• S3: stores and delivers uploaded media files (e.g. images, videos, ...)
• ELB: distributes incoming HTTP requests to multiple virtual servers
• VPC: environment is running in a separate private network
• Auto Scaling: manages the fleet of virtual servers
• CloudWatch: monitors the usage of the virtual servers and adds or removes additional servers if needed

• Wordpress plugins: amazon-web-services and amazon-s3-and-cloudfront
• Wordpress CLI: wp-cli

1. This templates depends on one of our VPC templates. Please create a VPC stack with at least two public and private subnets first.
2. Download the template wordpress-ha.json
3. Open AWS CloudFormation within the Management Console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.
4. Create a new stack by clicking on the Create Stack button.
5. Select Upload a template to Amazon S3 and upload the template wordpress-ha.json.
6. Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
7. Specify a name and all parameters for the stack.
8. Click Next to proceed with the next step of the wizard.
9. Click Next to skip the Options step of the wizard.
10. Check the I acknowledge that this template might cause AWS CloudFormation to create IAM resources. checkbox.
11. Click Create to start the creation of the stack.
12. Wait until the stack reaches the state CREATE_COMPLETE
13. Grab the URL of the Wordpress environment from the Outputs tab of your stack.

Installing and updating core, plugins and themes is disabled. You need to edit the /root/config.sh to change core, plugins and themes during bootstrapping of EC2 instances.

Do you need help?

Andreas Wittig or Michael Wittig