Step-by-Step Guide to Deploy WordPress on a Tencent Cloud Server

Author: Liu Yongfeng, Tencent Cloud Evangelist.

Task 1: Create a Cloud VM and Log In

Log in to the public account, find your cloud VM in the console, and copy its public IP.

Download and install a client tool (PuTTY) to connect to the Linux server.

# Download PuTTY.exe from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Open PuTTY, enter the IP address in the Hostname field, click Open , and log in with the user Ubuntu and your password.

After a successful login, run # sudo su to switch to the root user.

Task 2: Purchase a Database Instance and Initialize It

Install MySQL client on the server: # apt-get install mysql-client

Verify database connectivity.

Check the database’s internal and external IPs and connect: # mysql -h10.66.126.19 -uroot -p

Task 3: Install and Configure Required Software

Update apt sources: # apt-get update

Install Nginx: # apt-get install nginx

Restart Nginx to verify installation: # service nginx restart

Install PHP‑FPM: # apt-get install php5-fpm

Install PHP MySQL extension: # apt-get install php5-mysql

After installation, access the external IP in a browser to confirm Nginx is serving pages.

Task 4: Obtain WordPress Source Code and Configure It

Download WordPress: # wget http://download-10012769.cos.myqcloud.com/wordpress-4.5.3-zh_CN.tar.gz

Create the web service directory: # mkdir /var/www

Extract the archive to the directory: # tar -xzf wordpress-4.5.3-zh_CN.tar.gz -C /var/www

Set directory ownership: # chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress

Configure Nginx using a script: wget -O echo.sh http://yepscript.com/qcloud-wordpress bash echo.sh

During the script execution, input the cloud server’s IP when prompted for the domain, then reload Nginx:

# service nginx reload

Task 5: Create the WordPress Database

In the Tencent Cloud console, create a MySQL database, set the root password, and add a user whose host is the VM’s internal IP.

Task 6: Restart Services

# service nginx restart

# service php5-fpm restart

Task 7: Install and Configure WordPress

Open the server’s IP in a browser, follow the WordPress installation wizard, and provide the database information created earlier.

Task 8: Use Load Balancing for Horizontal Scaling

Create a load balancer.

Bind the previously created cloud VM to the load balancer.

Create an image of the VM.

Launch a new VM from the image and attach it to the load balancer.

Stop one VM to verify that WordPress remains functional.

Task 9: Share the VM Image

Stop the cloud VM.

Create an image from the VM.

Set the image to be shared.

In the original account, view the shared image.

Task 10: Clean Up the Database

Connect to MySQL and drop the WordPress database:

# mysql -hIP -uUSERNAME -p

# drop database DATABASE_NAME;