Step-by-Step Guide to Create or Migrate WordPress Site to AWS Lightsail
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2024
- Today I am going to show you the full process of migrating a WordPress website to AWS Lightsail. I recently migrated my personal website and I just wanted to share my experience of moving everything over.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction:
1:21 Create AWS WordPress Instance
4:55 Access WordPress Admin Dashboard
6:47 Domain Name Setup 123-Reg
12:28 Install FREE SSL Certificate
17:23 Access PHPMyAdmin locally
25:21 FTP to AWS Lightsail
28:51 Backup WordPress from cPanel
30:14 Migrating DB & WP Files
38:32 SMTP Plugin
39:50 Ending
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This is by far the best video on Migrating WP website to LightSail.
Explains everything in detail and with clear step by step instructions.
🙏Thanks a lot mate!
P.S: If you could make one video on **how to create FTP users for LightSail instance** for filezilla ( without using PEM key ), that will be great !🙏
your content is really underrated bro, keep up the amazing work !! helped me a lot. I keep coming back to the video into the sections i forgot and thankfully you revise the previously done things in every section. thanks again :)
Hey Raddy, Thanks very much for sharing this great tutorial. I found this very much helpful.. Keep sharing such useful information.
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing vide, really cool content. I start using AWS and find this tutorials very helpful. Now i have migrated ecommerce store successfully, thanks again man. Keep it up.👏
Thank you! AWS has been amazing 🙌
This video saved me big time!! Thank you, man. Never stop, Never change. cheers mate🍻
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Hey great video, thanks for sharing!
Glad that you liked it! Thank you for watching
I did use your tutorial but used all in one migration plugin which made the transfer of the SQL also, then later it did match all users which allow me to get into the admin panel... this was very tricky first time I use AWS and I am technically a basic user not a developer or something but you made it easy. hahaha took me almost 15 hours to get this done!!!
It didn't even cross my mind about the All in one migration plugin. That's a good idea! I am glad that you found the video useful
@@RaddyDev You know what would be great for your next video! Same thing but with multisite... I am on that right now... And it's very tricky for me that I am not a developer and just a single SMB owner who due to Pandemia am doing this alone! Hahaha would be helpful if you get into the multisite and make it with all in one migration with the multisite extension, have 2 days trying! Haha
thanku soo much it help me alot
Glad to hear that! Thank you for watching
Heyy bro how you i am a big fan of you, you deserve a lot subscriber your video is awesome.
Thanks, brother! 👊🦍
Thank you so much for such value 👍👍👍
I hope that you find it useful. Thank you for the comment
@@RaddyDevwelcome
@@RaddyDev btw can we do the same to migrate multiple sites using WordPress multisite in a single lightsail instance?
Yeah you can do mulitisite on a single instance. You have to just define your primary domain name using SSH. It's only a few steps more and it's all nicely documented on their official documentation page
@@RaddyDev thank you so much 👍❤️❤️❤️
Thanks a lot
Thank you for watching!
Great video. Thank you. I forgot to backup my wp-config file before transferring the file
Thanks for the comment! That's not good haha. I hope that you managed to recover it
@@RaddyDev Yes, I managed to check the configs from another Instance and updated the database credentials. Thanks
Hey Raddy great video... i'm using a mac lol so the whole putty thing was even more intense! wow! hahahah
Wow hahaha 😆
Hi can you let me know how you did it for mac
Great tutorials man keep it up awesome content. just take in concern that the Audio is a bit low. Cheers
I am glad that you liked it. Thank you for letting me know about the audio, I will turn it up slightly next time
I recently migrated my personal blog to AWS and I wanted to share the process and what it took to make it work. So far AWS Lightsail has been a great choice. I hope that some of you find the video useful
Update: The path to the WordPress folder has changed. New version is using Approach A exclusively:
Approach A: /opt/bitnami/wordpress
Approach B: /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
What an amazing tutorial, thanks! If I also were to set RDS and Cloudfront CDN, should I first migrate the website and only then set RDS and CDN? Which would be the best order to do it?
Glad that you like it, Victor. I added my CDN after everything was set up and working. I am not sure when is the best time to set the RDS
that's great content Raddy. does this process of doing the migration of the website work for EC2 server-wordpress? I mean all the process after minute 17:20. what do you think Raddy?
Sorry for the slow reply. I haven't used EC2 and I wanted to look into it before I answer. So, by the looks of it, it's just like renting a Virtual Machine. I can only guess, but as long as you set up your Amazon Machine Image and install phpMyAdmin separately. Once you do that you should be able to access it from your public IP without doing anything else. Let me know how it goes, it will be good to know
Fantastic work! But I ask you: Why AWS? Costs, performance, why?
Thank you! Mainly cost and performance. I was paying more for shared hosting with visibly slower performance. My shared hosting cost ~£11.60 /mo and now I am paying around £4.50 per month. The shared hosting did have cPanel which can be nice I guess
@@RaddyDev I use Siteground for some client sites with not exciting performances and very high costs. AWS could be an alternative. Thanks and I am also waiting for more videos
@@alessandroscimone5463 In this case you could check out Hostinger. Their Premium Shared hosting is $2.59/mo for 100 Websites (100 GB SSD and 25000 Visits Monthly). It does go up slightly after the first year.
Not sure if it gets you a discount, but I have an affiliate link with them:
hostinger.co.uk/raddythebrand
wish l had taken the all in one wp migration , just not sure if i changed the config file , can l replace them later on once side is up.Also the transfer for 3Gb of content will take about 12 hours is this normal
If you mess up you can always delete the instance and create a new one. As long as you have a backup of your original site it's all good. You can always update the config settings. 3GB of content is quite a lot for sure. I guess it depends on your internet upload speed
hey, i've got a quick question, do you have a video of downloading the entire instance/files for the instance to your computer and then uploading it elsewhere. for instance, dowloading everything so i can upload it to another aws account's lightsale?
Hey, in this example I downloaded a backup of my entire website from cPanel and then uploaded the files and imported the database to AWS. It was a migration video from the "standard" hosting company to AWS. It's all timestamped if you want to jump to a specific section
@@RaddyDev I know what this video shows. I'm asking if you've got one doing the opposite.
Unfortunately not
Good Luck to You. IN this AWS Website, can we enable Google Ads here?
Thank you, Eldin. Yeah of course, it's just a normal WordPress website so you can do whatever you like. I used to have Google Ads on mine
@@RaddyDev Thanks a lot for your valuable reply, keep doing.
My AWS lightsail show error
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
How can I solve this
It sounds like a permission issue:
stackoverflow.com/questions/39361453/usr-bin-sudo-must-be-owned-by-uid-0-and-have-the-setuid-bit-set
Hi Randy, great tutorial. I followed and successfully migrated my wordpress website to aws light sail but when i am trying upload the media or updating the plugin. I am facing error permission i did reset the using the article wp file permission but still same issue. Please help me
That's great to hear. I also migrated a website 3 weeks ago and had the same issue. Lucky the solution is fairly simple. You need to change file permissions using the terminal. I've put a quick article here: raddy.dev/blog/aws-lightsail-fix-wordpress-file-permissions/
Run the code in the article line by line
Thank you, Now I can manage plugins and media.
can you please also help me how to secure the Wordpress website like maintaining passwords in key storage and passing the values for instance in azure I use key vault or app configuration to mask the passwords in wp config file
In FileZilla, since you are being connected with SFTP and private key (pem), you don't really need a password. You can leave it blank. I realized it when I deleted some characters from the password by accident and I was still able to connect (to my surprise). I thought wtf? Why I am connected with the wrong password? Then I remembered I had a pem key in settings.
I didn't realize that 😀. Thank you!
does bncert tool auto renews SSL?
Yeah it does. Once you install it like on the video you won't have to touch it ever again. It's super convenient
Followed your tutorial but 28:25 /opt/bitnami/apps folder missing
what to do? Plz help
That's strange. Try going backwards a few folders and see if you can find it. Or maybe yours is stored in a different location
@@RaddyDev tried a lot, but folder not exist. There is two folder of Wordpress and I am so confused that I have to work on which one
It could be the. WordPress one. Go in and see if you can find the files 🙂
@@RaddyDev sure... thanks
i followed all but after uploading, changing wp-config.php, and trying website, it forces me to install.php. Any suggestions please?
There are a couple of things that you can check. Double-check if wp-config.php exist and delete wp-config-sample.php. Make sure that your connection details in wp-config.php are correct and you have imported your database. Just double-check them and one important thing is that you have the correct table prefix. The default one is usually wp_ table name. The prefix needs to match your database. And I think that the last thing you can do is to repair your database using PHPMyAdmin. I hope that you figure it out
Heyy bro i want alot video on node express and mysql to build big project by the help of you please if you can
You want more videos on NodeJs, express and MySql? I can make that happen
Hi Raddy... I've just done another site but this time the apps folder (28:22 in your video) in filezilla isn't there... all the other steps have worked -any ideas? Thanks!
In Filezilla when you connect could you put the path manually where it says "Remote site:". You can try "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs"
Hi Randy Bitnami has changed it's file structure... docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/troubleshoot-wordpress-issues/ so the video needs updating :-(
@@learnclub5205 It looks like the folders are different because you are using Approach A in that link and I am using Approach B - Self-contained Bitnami installation. I've added a note to the blog post. Thanks for letting me know!
@@RaddyDev I'm chatting to Bitnami support and they've said: "New versions of the stack are using Approach A exclusively. You can't choose what approach to use at launch time" which means your video no longer works (out of date)? But apparently you can launch an older version of the stack which would use Approach B? Gosh so complicated lol
@@danking2417Thanks for this, Dan. I've put a note on my blog, but unfortunately I can't update the video unless I re-upload. I am tempted as the audio was too low on this one. I'll just pin a note in the comments for now
Love your tutorial ....I am facing this issue "WordPress Address and Site Address fields greyed out in AWS LIGHTSAIL" ........Please help ? And I have also a questions that my when I am searching my website my domain associated website (with https)and IP wordpress website (with http) and both are one by one shown on google.....Can you tell me what are the drawbacks to shown static IP associated website in public ? How to prevent IP ASSOCIATED WEBSITE from google ?
If they are greyed out, does that mean that they are not running for some reason? There must be a tooltip or a message somewhere to tell you what is going on. Try clicking on the 3 dots on the instance and then connect.
I can't think of any drawbacks at the moment. Maybe SEO... Hopefully, once you fix your domain name it will replace it
@@RaddyDev Thank you so much for replying. Is I can do step wp-config.php step ? is it safe ?
@@NinjaAnkit Always backup your files so you don't have to worry about loosing important files
@@RaddyDev
I have a problem in #wordpress website hosted on #aws #awsLightsail ... while searching on #google with its name ...google shows same website but in two ways ......one is domain URL (with https ) and other one is IP address link without https. What to do its so google can show only Domain url associated website ??
I have done .htaccess changes to redirect the domain.
Sir Please help me
@@NinjaAnkit I wouldn't panic about it. You only migrated your website recently so you might have to wait a few days / a week for search engines to craw your website and update. As long as your website is working with your domain name, you will be fine. Give it some time. Also if your website was hosted on another IP they will see that the links are not working and remove them. There is probably a better way to word this, but I hope that it makes sense. Be patient. Let me know how it goes in a week or two
'30:14 Migrating DB & WP Files " I encounterd with the error in file zilla please help!!
1.Error: rmdir /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content: permission denied
2.Error: /bitnami/wordpress/wp-admin
You can right click on the folders and change the file permissions. DON'T give full access!
Usually the permissions are:
wp-admin: 755.
wp-content: 755
wp-content/themes: 755
wp-content/plugins: 755
wp-content/uploads: 755
But always double check on the official documentation. I hope this helps
@@RaddyDev thank you for your help
how does this differ for individuals in the US?
No difference. The only thing that you might want to do is to choose the closest data center to you or where the website will be mainly visited from
Im getting this error when i try to update wordpress "The update could not be installed because the files could not be copied. This problem is usually due to incorrect file permissions.: wp-admin/includes/update-core.php" how can i solve this problem?
You need to change your file/folder permissions. I made a simple guide a while back: raddy.dev/blog/aws-lightsail-fix-wordpress-file-permissions/
didnt wok for my macbook
Could not get reply from fzputtygen' error when adding private key to FileZilla
People on stack overflow say that filezilla 3.55 has the issue but works OK on 3.56.2. Try 3.56.2 or whatever the latest version there is
Thanks for your instant reply.
I use the latest version of FileZilla. I am doing an update on my MacBook to the newest version and will check again later
It worked with Ventura 13.0
Awesome! At the end you might just need to update the folder permissions. That's if you cannot update / add plugins or media. I've put a super short article on my blog. It's on the front page - latest article. 🙂
My databasee size is 189mb after compression and the PHPmyadmin is only allowing 80mb, can you please help me how can I fix this ?
Try modifying the "php.ini" file. You should be able to find at /opt/bitnami/php/etc/
Change the following to whatever you need:
upload_max_filesize=80M
post_max_size=80M
Restart
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart
@@RaddyDev thank you for the suggestion, it worked well.
33:10 unable to delete anything, error occurs like RETRY or ABORT
Instead of Status: It is showing Error and Command
I am trying to think of what it could be... I haven't had this happen to me before
@@RaddyDev Resolved! I can transfer files using only SSH *sudo* not in the sFTP method
Hi bro, loves from india.
I wanted to know that can i use (All in one wp migration) instead of manual migration.
Hey, bro! I hope that you are doing well 🇮🇳You can, I just didn't think of it when I was doing the video as I am used to doing it manually 🤦♂️
@@RaddyDev i did it with All in wp migration & google drive extension, could you please create a video about CDN distribution on aws in lightsail?
Thanks
Hey!
I was connecting to the instance thoigh i couldnt find the apps folder...
Help!
Another thing, after importing DB the site didnt break, is that normal or did i do something worng?
They recently update the folder structure. New version is using Approach A exclusively:
Approach A: /opt/bitnami/wordpress
Approach B: /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
When you import the DB everything should be okay. The problem happens when you replace the existing wp-config.php file as the username, password and database name might not match. If you are setting up a new site and you won't be replacing the files you should be good.
How to block direct access to public IP after linking with domain name?
I am not sure if you can block direct access to a public IP. It's public after all. You could use .htaccess to block direct access. Or maybe have a look at the Firewall rules. You might be able to restrict to a specific IP there. If you click on your AWS Lightsail instance, go to Networking and you will see Firewall. You could try to configure it there
@@RaddyDev Thank you for the kind reply
Hello my friend, I want to ask you please, when I create a new WordPress in Amazon Lightsail and move the site and I have done all your information to convert the IP to the domain, everything is fine, but the internal links included in the articles remain with the IP address. Unfortunately, is there a solution
for that
Thank you 🙏
Hello friend! Just so I understand, you moved your domain and when you visit the website under domainDOTcom the website works. Then you go into an article and the links are still using the old IP address? Or do you mean they are using the old domain name? 182.322.331.22/about or olddomainDOTcom/about? Some themes weirdly store URLs in the database and I've noticed that when I've migrated websites the old links are there. There are two options.
Option 1: Use Plugin called "Search & Replace" - Green icon With this plugin you can search for "olddomainDOTcom" and replace it with "newdomainDOTcom". Be careful with slashes and http, https, www stuff. just replace the name. - Do a backup before :-)
Option 2: Use MySQL to search for the old domain/ip and replace I hope that this helps and have a great weekend!
I hope that this helps and have a great weekend!
@@RaddyDev Thank you very much I will do this Thank you very much 🙏
@@RaddyDev Hello my friend, thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏🙏👍🏻. The extension has already been resolved, but when I search for the extension in the wp_options folder, it says there is a fatal error, knowing that the extension was working very well before the site was migrated.
I would like to get help. I am unable to renew my SSL certificate. Can anyone help me? How can I renew or delete it?
You need to run the Bncert Tool code again and follow the instructions. Do you get an error or something? Normally the renewals are automatic after
Is there a quicker way to delete WordPress files via ssh instead Filezilla?
I tried: rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty wp-includes but not seems to work
It might be "sudo rm -R foldername/"
I used your trick until FTP transfer
I used all in one wp migration to transfer worpress
That's a good idea!
when I try to edit FTP files, its showing an error
Google the error, hopefully you'll find the answer
can't find the folder apps! Does anyone knows where has been moved?
Hey Gino, you can find the folder path in the pinned comment at the top and also on the blog post. It might be /opt/bitnami/wordpress that you are looking for. The folder structure was updated that's all 🙂
@@RaddyDev thank you very much!
I've tried all in your video yet it doesnt seems to work. I keep getting an http 500 error. Any chance you could give me a hand?
@@ginuxone Look into what can causes error 500. It could be something like file permissions or bad .htaccess file. Turn on your debug and see if you can get some more information. Disable plugins and so on...
@@RaddyDev Tried all but it didn't work. I've found the solution tho, which is avoid deleting everything from opt/bitnami/wordpress and only import stuff i need
video is good, but how can Mac users connect to phpmyadmin? Your tutorial is for windows users only!!
You can install PuTTY on Mac and Linux. On Mac you can use Homebrew or MacPorts if you want the GUI. It's a good point, I will have to include it somehow when I update the video one day.
How i can increase import memory of phpmyadmin.
In /opt/bitnami/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php there should be MemoryLimit which you can change. Have a look around, Bitnami might have a guide on it
Thank you very much. I want to ask one more thing. Is it possible to run sub domian. in same instance.
I am pretty sure that you can make it work. You'll need to look into the Apache configuration. Is it another WP site that you want installed? I am not sure if it will allow you to create a second database easily. But there probably is a way
@@RaddyDev yes its a second database. I was trying to make order on my site but email is not working any more as in old hosting.
On AWS there is an Image for WordPress Multisite. I haven't used it yet, but that might be an option to explore.
You don't get a mail server with it, but AWS does have a service for that. SES I think... I personally use SendGrid for my email delivery. Super easy to setup with SMTP plugin and you get 100 email per day on the free tier.
Hey I was wondering, how do I migrate my domain name as well to AWS so that the domain name is also registered under AWS instead of my previous hosting(Bluehost)?
That's a tough one. Look into "Transferring registration for a domain to Amazon Route 53". There is a youtube video that pops up, but I haven't watched it. You can keep your domain name with BlueHost and use AWS if you decide that it is too much effort
@@RaddyDev Ah ok, got you. But if I were to keep that, wouldn't I need to modify my other DNS records, because the only one I've changed was the @ A record. But all the other records still point to the old IP. How would I need to change those? Like there are records for ftp, autoconfig, autodicover, cpanel etc...
LightSail doesen't come with any of that. So no Email Box, cPanel and so on. That is defiantly something to consider when moving.
To make your domain point to the new server the only thing that you need to change is your A records.
If you want to get custom email @yourcompany you will need to look into buying one. Google, Microsoft, Zoho or whatever you prefer. It's not expensive, but it does add up. I think that you will be looking around $5 per month for the starter options.
For my blog I only wanted one email address and I found that Zoho gives you one business email for free. I guess that's to get you in to use their services. So I registered one, followed the instructions and pointed my domain name MX records to zoho.
If you don't mind me asking, why are you moving from Bluehost? Slow shared server I assume?
@@RaddyDev Thank you so much for the information. Yes that's right, it's a slow server, plus it costs a lot. And Amazon gives me AWS credits(inconsistent) occasionally depending on how well my other products perform which I can use to pay instead of money. So in the end it works out way cheaper.
Sorry but the price differences are really not worth all the trouble.
That's fair. There are defiantly cheaper alternatives out there that are much easier to manage