Taking It Apart: Components of a WordPress Blog
Explore the internal components of a Bitnami WordPress installation on AWS, including the LAMP stack processes, file and folder organization, and the wp-config file. This lesson helps you grasp how the WordPress application interacts with its database and files, setting a foundation for making it scalable and highly available in cloud environments.
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Understanding the WordPress configuration
In this lesson, we’ll get a deeper understanding of the internals of WordPress. We’ll need to know how the components interact to build a highly available version of WordPress later on.
Since we are using a Bitnami WordPress installation, some things might be in different places compared to other WordPress variants. These are minor differences (like files being in different places), but it’s useful to keep this in mind, especially if we’ll be working with it in the future and wonder why some results on Google don’t seem to apply to our deployment.
Just like we did in the last lesson, we need to log in via SSH again. To do so, please run the following command:
The command above automatically gets the public DNS name of the WordPress instance we created in the last lesson and logs in via SSH. If you need to confirm that you want to connect to this server, type “yes” (just like you did in the last lesson).
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