Moved this website from bitnami to nginx/php-fpm/mariadb

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This website was made on 2020 November and running on bitnami on LightSail.

Recently I got this warning.
– PHP update recommended
– Your PHP is 7.3.18 which is old version

I agree old PHP isn’t good because of security reason.
I updated to the latest PHP version.

This is current PHP version of this website.

sudo docker compose exec wordpress php -v
PHP 8.1.10 (cli) (built: Sep 13 2022 10:34:13) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.1.10, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.1.10, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

This is what I did, which are not complicated.

- Creating new LightSail instance which is Amazon Linux 2
- Backing up bitnami
 * Web contents
 * Database
- Restoring backup to Amazon Linux 2 instance
- Switching DNS configuration to reply Amazon Linux 2's IP address
- Stopping bitnami instance

Creating new LightSail instance which is Amazon Linux 2

I referred this article.

How to create WordPress instance on Lightsail?

If you are looking for blog server running on AWS this article perfectly suitable for you! All images and commands to run is in here, so you don't need to worry about anything!

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I assgined static IP address to new instance as well.

How to assign fixed IP address to Lightsail instance?

This article shows how to assign static IP address to Lightsail instance! You can do it with this post which has all images!

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Backing up bitnami and restoring to Amazon Linux 2

You can refer this article.

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You don’t have time?
Yes, you can take these scripts!

# Web contents
cd /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
sudo tar jcf wordpress.tar.bz2 .
# Database
mysqldump -u root --single-transaction -p bitnami_wordpress > bitnami_wordpress.linuxfun.org.sql

This is how to restore.

# Web contents
cd html
sudo tar jxf wordpress.tar.bz2 .
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
# Database
sudo cp bitnami_wordpress.linuxfun.org.sql mysql
sudo docker-compose exec db /bin/bash
# Below is work in container
sed -i 's/utf8mb4_unicode_ci/utf8mb4_unicode_ci/g' /var/lib/mysql/bitnami_wordpress.linuxfun.org.sql
mysql -u root -p bitnami_wordpress < /var/lib/mysql/bitnami_wordpress.linuxfun.org.sql

Switching DNS configuration to reply Amazon Linux 2’s IP address

This step depends on which DNS server you are using.
In my case I use Google Domains, which forwards query to DNS server of LightSail.

My case is very easy because I only need to configure DNS configuration of LightSail.

Stopping bitnami instance

You can stop as usual.

Conclusion

How was it?

I feel bitnami is a bit blackbox and is difficult to look into detail.
From now I can easily maintain!