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Install WordPress
- Watch this video and stop at step #3. Make sure you select uscentral1, useast1, or uswest1 to take advantage of google's free tier.
- Enable let's encrypt by running:
sudo /opt/bitnami/bncert-tool
- Disable the Bitnami banner by running:
sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/bnconfig --disable_banner 1 sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
- Configure the server to parse Authorization headers correctly when you make a request from the front end:
// Open the htttpd config file by running: sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/conf/httpd-app.conf // Add this to the bottom of the file: RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1 // Restart the server sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
Install Woo-commerce plugin
Go to settings -> Permalinks and change from plain to custom:
/%postname%/
and product base to custom:/product/
Generate your API keys. set them to read/write
Add products (set up a test CSV file for this)
Install Axios on your front end we will use this for some basic auth stuff
Bonus Section: Connect to MySQL DB Remotely
SSH into your VM and run the following command:
sudo nano /opt/bitnami/mysql/my.cnf
comment out bind-address=127.0.0.1
and save the file.
Next create a new db user with the following command:
mysql -u root -p
# enter password
CREATE USER 'user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'user'@'%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
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