wordpress on s3: do it yourself
DESCRIPTION
WordPress on Amazon S3: real simple. Launch your own WordPress site to the cloud today! You don’t even have to change the web hoster. Step 1. Deploy Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE) for MySQL on your WordPress site Step 2. Move the website content to the cloud Step 3. Activate WP2Cloud plugin Now WordPress can seamlessly store all its data on the cloud storage. Using cloud storage to store website data has the following benefits: • No backup and recovery is needed for site data • Storage is extremely reliable and durable • Media files (such as pictures, documents) are served by the cloud storage directly • Storage cost scales with usage, no upfront reservation is needed • Storage consumption scales up and down with the amount of data stored This presentation provides a step-by-step guide for anyone to launch a WordPress site that stores its data in Amazon S3. Launch your own WordPress site to the cloud today! It’s easy and FREE, no writing code is required. Start at http://www.oblaksoft.com/downloads.TRANSCRIPT
ClouSE configuration
WordPress on S3: do it yourself Artem LivshitsCEO OblakSoft
Prerequisites
◦ Server machine login
◦ Root access to server machine
◦ Admin access to MySQL server
ClouSE installation
ClouSE config, step-by-step
From Linux, *nix, Mac client
◦ Start terminal, run:
◦ ssh [email protected]
From Windows PC
◦ Install PuTTY
◦ (See screenshot later in the slides)
If in doubt, ask your hoster!
Server machine login
◦ Log in as user myuser to machine myserver.com
◦ Will be prompted for password
ssh -i mysecret.pem [email protected]
◦ Use mysecret.pem private key instead of
password
◦ Log in as user root to myserver.com
Connect with ssh examples
Connect with PuTTY example
You can gain root access if you
◦ Either know root password (or SSH private key)
◦ Or can run ‘sudo’ command
If you know root password, you may be able
◦ To login as root
◦ To login as someone else, then run ‘su’ command
If in doubt, ask your hoster!
Root access to server machine
Using ‘su’ command
◦ su
◦ (Enter the root’s password, when prompted)
Using ‘sudo’ command
◦ sudo bash
Becoming root (example)
You will need admin access to MySQL server
Command line example
◦ mysql -u root -p
phpMyAdmin example
If in doubt,
ask your hoster!
Admin access to MySQL server
Get it from www.oblaksoft.com/downloads
◦ Pick ClouSE binaries that match your server OS
Upload the archive file to your server
◦ Use the tools you normally use for file uploading
◦ Place the file to the home directory
Copy ClouSE to server machine
Login to server machine
◦ From Linux, *nix, Mac: ssh …
◦ From Windows: PuTTY …
Extract ClouSE binaries
◦ tar xzf clouse-1.0*.tar.gz
This would create a directory like
◦ clouse-1.0b.1.7-linux-x64
Extract ClouSE binaries
cd clouse-1.0*
./install-clouse
◦ You need to be root to run this script
◦ You’ll be prompted for MySQL’s root password
◦ You’ll be prompted for S3 access & secret keys
◦ You’ll be prompted for bucket URL
Run installation script
You’ll be prompted for access & secret keys
Click this link to get the keys
Amazon S3 access keys
You’ll be prompted for Bucket URL
Click this link to create / find a bucket
Amazon S3 bucket
ClouSE installation end to end
Follow ‘WordPress on S3: manual steps’ at
www.oblaksoft.com/documentation/yapixx
◦ Move tables to the cloud
◦ Activate WP2Cloud plugin
What’s next?
Get FREE WordPress on S3 / Yapixx @
www.oblaksoft.com/downloads
www.oblaksoft.com
Contact us
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