Editing the NCRPD Website with Cloud9
- Don't forget to fork and clone the project to Cloud9 before doing these steps
First create an Amazon Web Services account.
- Create an instance of within the relational database console (RDS)
- Create a MySQL database
- Choose Dev/Test option
- With db.t2.mirco DB instance class
- And around 5GB of storage
- When you create the instance, make sure you have a secure username/password
- Ensure that the instance is publically available
- Save the "Endpoint", this will be the "Hostname" of your database
Once your instance is created, you will want to ensure that the database is accessible from C9:
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Open up the EC2 Management Console
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Go to Security groups, choose the correct security group
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Your Inbound table should look like this:
| Type |
Protocol |
Port Range |
Source |
Description |
| MYSQL/Aurora |
TCP |
3306 |
0.0.0.0/0 |
|
| MYSQL/Aurora |
TCP |
3306 |
::/0 |
|
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Your outbound table should look like this:
| Type |
Protocol |
Port Range |
Destination |
Description |
| All traffic |
All |
All |
0.0.0.0/0 |
|
In cloud 9, within your wordpress site, change the wp-config file to:
- define('DB_NAME', getenv('DB_NAME'));
- define('DB_USER', getenv('DB_USER'));
- define('DB_PASSWORD', getenv('DB_PASSWORD'));
- define('DB_HOST', getenv('DB_HOST'));
Run your cloud 9 project:
- If you need to, set it up (i.e. language, sitename, username/password)
- Download ARI Adminer
- Open it, run in modal window (with wordpress database as the connection):
- Make sure your database is the AWS one
- Run SQL commands to insert data from the SQL database folder attached to gitHub
- NOTE: you may need to change some items before you runt he SQL commands
- NOTE2: Don't change the users and be careful when updating wp_options table as your password may change.
View your website you may need to make the following changes:
- Apperance > Menus: Add all pages, ensure the following is checke: Display location: Primary Menu
- Your links should all be working now, if they don't: Click through and "Update" each page
- Settings > Permalink: Ensure Post name is enabled
- Settings > Reading: Set "Front Page Displays" to "Your Latest Posts" or to a specific page