Video illustration of how to deploy a WordPress application into a compute engine virtual machine on Google Cloud Platform

In this tutorial I deployed a WordPress application into a virtual machine and served the website files over the internet.

This tutorial builds on a previous tutorial: How to setup a compute engine VM on GCP and install LAMP stack on the server.

Prerequisite

Complete tutorial: How to setup a compute engine VM on GCP and install LAMP stack on the server.

Steps

i) SSH into the VM

ii) CD into the html directory of the apache2 server

cd /var/www/html
ls

iii) Get into MariaDB database.

sudo mysql

Create database for WordPress application

CREATE DATABASE wordpress_database;

Create a user for the database named wordpress_user

CREATE USER 'wordpress_user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'User@789dynamic!';

vi) Grant wordpress_user access to wordpress_database 

GRANT ALL ON wordpress_database.* TO 'wordpress_user'@'%';

vii) Show databases.

SHOW DATABASES;

vii) Modify PHP.ini file

cd /etc/php/8.1/apache2/

[NB: Be careful to adapt to your own PHP version if it is not 8.1]

sudo nano php.ini

Set the following variables in the php.ini file to have the given values.

  • max_input_time=30, upload_max_filesize=20M, post_max_size=21M

Return to web server root directory and remove test files if any (e.g. index.html, myphpinfo.php and mytodolist.php)

cd /var/www/html/

viii) Clone code from wordpress.org

sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz 

ix) Unpack files and change to the wordpress directory

sudo tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
ls

cd wordpress

x) Move content to outer directory

sudo mv * ..

xi) Change to outer directory

cd ..

xii) Delete emptied wordpress directory and latest.tar.gz file

sudo rm wordpress/ -r

sudo rm latest.tar.gz

xiii) Copy wp-config-sample.php content into wp-config.php 

sudo cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
  • [CONFIGURE wp-config.php APPROPRIATELY]
sudo nano wp-config.php
  • define (‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress_database’);
  • define (‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpress_user’);
  • define (‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘User@789dynamic!’);

Configure SALTS – Get values at:

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

Save updated wp-config.php file , save and exit. 

xiv) Set up WordPress over the web. Login and test.

Conclusion

In this tutorial we:
i) Deployed a WordPress application into a virtual machine server;

ii) Configured a WordPress website on the cloud;

iii) Tested the deployed WordPress Website on a browser over the Internet

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Training: WordPress Website Design Fundamentals – https://ugogineering.com/wordpress-fundamentals-training

References

  1. How to setup a GCP compute engine virtual machine and install Linux, Apache, MariaDB, PHP (LAMP) Stack on Ubuntu 22.04
  2. How to deploy a pre-built website code into a compute engine virtual machine and serve the website from GCP
  3. Hosting a website on Google Cloud Platform.
  4. How to sign up for your own GCP account.
  5. Hosting a Website on Google Cloud Platform | Free Hosting
  6. Caseray Cloud
  7. My (Ugochukwu Ukwuegbu’s) YouTube channel.