Installing WordPress on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

InstallingWordPressonGoogleCloudPlatform(GCP)

April2016

What’sCoveredWhat’sCoveredSlide Topic3 Introduction4 IaaS vs.PaaSvs.SaaS5 ArchitectureOverview7 Part One– CreateaComputeEngineinstance11 Part Two– ConfigureComputeEngine15 PartThree– CreateaCloudSQLinstance24 PartFour– InstallandConfigure WordPress30 NowWhat?

IntroductionIntroduction

ThepurposeofthistutorialisnotonlytoinstallWordPressbuttolearnmoreabouttheGoogleCloudPlatformConsole.Inaddition,learnhowtousesomeoftheresourcessuchasComputeEngineandCloudSQL.

ThiswillgiveyouagoodbasicunderstandingofGoogle’scloudoffering.

InfrastructureasaService(IaaS) PlatformasaService(PaaS) SoftwareasaService(SaaS)

IaaSvs.PaaSvs.SaaSIaaSvs.PaaSvs.SaaS

AssembleandconfigurethevariousresourcesofComputeEngine,CloudSQLandCloudStoragetorunWordPress.

InstallWordPressonAppEngineandlettheprovisioningofresourceshappeninthebackground.

VisitWordPress.comandstartbloggingwithoutconfiguring,installingormaintainingWordPresssoftware.

ComputeEngine

CloudSQL

CloudStorage

AppEngine

ArchitectureOverviewArchitectureOverview

UsersInternet

Region:asia-east1(Taiwan)

Zone:asia-east1-a

ComputeEngine

CloudSQL

CloudStorage

GetaFreeTrialGCPAccount@https://cloud.google.com/

PartOne:PartOne:CreateaComputeEngineInstanceCreateaComputeEngineInstance

Incloud-speakcreatinganewvirtualserveriscalledan“instance”.“Spinningupaninstance”isaphraseyouwillhearquiteoftenwhichjustreferstostartinganewComputeEngineinstance.

Step1:FromtheGCPConsole,clickonComputeEngine

Step2:ClickonCreateInstance

Step3:Enterinthedetails

PartTwo:PartTwo:ConfigureYourComputeEngineInstanceConfigureYourComputeEngineInstance

NowthattheComputeEngineinstancehasbeencreatedit’stimetoinstalltheLEMP(Linux,Nginx,MySQLandPHP)stackwhichwe’llneedbeforeyoucaninstallWordPress.TheLinuxkernelwaspreinstalledwhentheinstancewascreated.Nginx andPHPwillbeinstalledinthissection.MySQLwillbeinstalledinthenextsection.

Step1:ConnecttotheComputeEngineinstance

Therearemultiplewaystoconnecttotheinstance:• FromtheGCPConsoleclickonSSHnexttotheinstancename• FromtheGoogleCloudShell• UsingSSHfromaterminalwindow• UsingCloudSDKCLIfromaterminalwindow

Touseyour terminalwindow,download theGCPCloudSDKandfollowtheinstructions toinstallit.Thenclickon“Viewglcloud command”andenterthatinyourterminalwindow.

gcloud compute --project ”Name of your project" ssh --zone "asia-east1-a" ”your instance name"

Step2:InstallNginx , PHPandMySQL

Onceconnectedtotheinstance,switchtosuperuser:sudo su

Installanynewupdates:apt-get update

InstallNginx , PHPandMySQLextension:apt-get install -y nginx php5-fpm php5-mysql mysql-client

Step3:EdittheNginx configurationfile

EdittheNginx config filetoallowindex.php asadefaultfiletoload:nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Add index.php tothelinebelow:index index.php index.html index.htm;

Uncommentthefollowing lines:location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; # fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; # # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini# # With php5-cgi alone: # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;# With php5-fpm: fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; }

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PartThree:PartThree:CreateaCloudSQLInstanceCreateaCloudSQLInstance

InsteadofrunningMySQLonthesameComputeEngineinstancewewilluseCloudSQLtorunthedatabaseonaseparateserver.

Step1:FromtheGCPConsole,clickonSQL

Step2:ClickonCreateInstance

Step3:ClickonChooseSecondGeneration

Step4:Selecttheoptionsthencreatetheinstance

Step5:ClickontheInstanceIDthatwasjustcreated

Step6:Clickon“Additem”toaddtheIPaddressoftheComputeEnginethatyoucreated

Step7:ClickonUsers,tochangetherootpassword

Step8:UsetheCloudSDKcommandlinetocreateadatabaseona2nd Geninstance

Connect to the Compute Engine instance, then type the following to connect to the Cloud SQL instance:mysql --host=<IP address of Cloud SQL> --user=root --password

At the mysql prompt:CREATEDATABASEwordpress;

PartFour:PartFour:InstallandConfigureWordPressInstallandConfigureWordPress

Step1:DownloadandInstallWordPress

Change to the root directory of Nginx:cd /usr/share/nginx/html

Download the latest WordPress package:wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract WordPress:tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz

Move WordPress to the default root folder: (rsync keeps the permissions)rsync -avP /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress/ /usr/share/nginx/html/

Delete the WordPress tar filerm latest.tar.gz

Change permissions on the directory:chown -hR www-data:www-data /usr/share/nginx/htmlchmod -R g+rw /usr/share/nginx/html

Restart the Nginx serverservice nginx restart

Step2:PointyourbrowsertotheIPaddressoftheComputeEngine,thenselectthelanguage

Step3:EntertheMySQLdetails

Step4:EntertheWordPressdetails

Step5:VisittheIPAddressoftheComputeEngine.Theblogislive!

NowWhat?NowWhat?

MakethingsandbreakthingstolearnhowallthevariousservicesofGCPworktogether.

VisitGCPformoretutorialsat:https://cloud.google.com/docs/

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AppendixAppendix

ConnectingtoCloudSQLviaComputeEngineoverSSH(usingMySQLWorkbench)

IPaddressofComputeEngine

IPaddressofCloudSQL

Username

UsingCyberduck toTransferFilestoGoogleCloudStorage– Step1

UsingCyberduck toTransferFilestoGoogleCloudStorage– Step2