WordPress Developers – working with the AWS Lightsail Terminal? Here are a few commands that may be useful- New

WordPress Developers – working with the AWS Lightsail Terminal? Here are a few commands that may be useful

Setting owner permissions for WP root path

				
					sudo chown daemon:daemon -R /opt/bitnami/wordpress/

Setting owner permissions for /wp-content/ path

				
					sudo chown daemon:daemon -R /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/

Setting file/dir permissions

				
					sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/wordpress/.htaccess

Open wp-config.php in terminal editor

				
					sudo nano /opt/bitnami/wordpress/wp-config.php

Install WP CLI

				
					cd /opt/bitnami/wordpress

If you boot your instance with a bitnami AMI, the WP CLI comes preinstalled so first run this command to see if already installed

				
					wp --info

if there is no info output, proceed with installation

				
					curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

				
					php wp-cli.phar --info

				
					chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

finally, run this to test if installation is successful

				
					wp --info

Install AWS CLI (Data for demo purposes only, generate your own IAM keys for input)

				
					aws configure

				
					AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE

				
					AWS Secret Access Key [None]: wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

				
					Default region name [None]: us-west-2

				
					Default output format [None]: json

Restart Apache

				
					sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

SSL configuration

				
					sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool

Access php-ini file for editing

				
					sudo nano /opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini

Get root/user password for new lightsail instance

				
					sudo cat /home/bitnami/bitnami_credentials

Copy content from one S3 bucket to another

				
					aws s3 sync s3://SOURCE_BUCKET_NAME s3://NEW_BUCKET_NAME

Debug to file (wp-config.php)

				
					define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

Update WordPress automatically without using FTP (wp-config.php)

				
					define('FS_METHOD','direct');

Increase WordPress memory limit

				
					define('WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M');

Run mysql query from CLI

				
					mysql -h localhost -u root -p bitnami_wordpress -e "SELECT * FROM wp_users"

How to swap out a string value from a large SQL file

				
					sudo sed -i 's/CHARSET=utf8mb4/CHARSET=utf8/g' example.sql

Setting file dir owner

				
					sudo chown daemon:daemon -R /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/

Setting file/dir permissions

				
					sudo chmod 644 /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/.htaccess

Open wp-config.php in terminal editor

				
					sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-config.php

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