Create a WordPress CodeDeploy Bundle

Download WordPress, extract the files and create a ./scripts directory.

Linux command:

wget https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/archive/master.zip

Windows: Paste https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/archive/master.zip into a browser window and download the zip file.

Create a temporary directory in which to assemble the package.

Linux:

mkdir /tmp/WordPress

Windows: Create a "WordPress" directory, you will use the directory path later.

Extract the WordPress source to the "WordPress" directory and create a ./scripts directory.

Linux:

unzip master.zip -d /tmp/WordPress_Temp
cp -paf /tmp/WordPress_Temp/WordPress-master/* /tmp/WordPress
rm -rf /tmp/WordPress_Temp
rm -f master
cd /tmp/WordPress
mkdir scripts

Windows: Go to the "WordPress" directory that you created and create a "scripts" directory there.

If you are in a Windows environment, be sure to set the break type for the script files to Unix (LF). In Notepad ++, this is an option at the bottom right of the window.

Create the CodeDeploy appspec.yml file, in the WordPress directory (if copying the example, check the indentation, each space counts). IMPORTANT: Ensure that the "source" path is correct for copying the WordPress files (in this case, in your WordPress directory) to the expected destination (/var/www/html/WordPress). In the example, the appspec.yml file is in the directory with the WordPress files, so only "/" is needed. Also, even if you used a RHEL AMI for your Auto Scaling group, leave the "os: linux" line as-is. Example appspec.yml file:

version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
  - source: /
    destination: /var/www/html/WordPress
hooks:
  BeforeInstall:
    - location: scripts/install_dependencies.sh
      timeout: 300
      runas: root
  AfterInstall:
    - location: scripts/config_wordpress.sh
      timeout: 300
      runas: root
  ApplicationStart:
    - location: scripts/start_server.sh
      timeout: 300
      runas: root
  ApplicationStop:
    - location: scripts/stop_server.sh
      timeout: 300
      runas: root

Create bash file scripts in the WordPress ./scripts directory.

First, create config_wordpress.sh with the following content (if you prefer, you can edit the wp-config.php file directly).

#!/bin/bash
chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/WordPress
cp /var/www/html/WordPress/wp-config-sample.php /var/www/html/WordPress/wp-config.php
cd /var/www/html/WordPress
sed -i "s/database_name_here/DBName/g" wp-config.php
sed -i "s/username_here/DB_MasterUsername/g" wp-config.php
sed -i "s/password_here/DB_MasterUserPassword/g" wp-config.php
sed -i "s/localhost/DB_ENDPOINT/g" wp-config.php

In the same directory create install_dependencies.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
yum install -y php
yum install -y php-mysql
yum install -y mysql
service httpd restart

In the same directory create start_server.sh with the following content:

In the same directory create stop_server.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/bash
service httpd stop

Create the zip bundle.

Linux:

$ cd /tmp/WordPress
$ zip -r wordpress.zip .

Windows: Go to your "WordPress" directory and select all of the files and create a zip file, be sure to name it wordpress.zip.