Create the EC2 instance with AWS and launch the instance by selecting the Ubuntu OS. Once the instance is ready state enable SSH on the instance to access via your command line interface and execute the script mentioned below.

create new file with the name of automated_wordpress_apache_ssl_script.sh

Enter the following command in sequence to execute at once:

!/bin/bash

Define parameters

DB_NAME=”wordpress”
DB_USER=”Custome_Name”
DB_PASSWORD=”Custome_Password”
WP_PATH=”/var/www/html/wordpress”
WP_URL=”http://yourdomain.com/wordpress”

Update system

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade -y

Install required packages

sudo apt install -y apache2 mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql unzip

Secure MySQL installation

sudo mysql_secure_installation

Install Certbot for Let’s Encrypt

sudo apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-apache

Create the WordPress database and user

sudo mysql -e “CREATE DATABASE $DB_NAME;”
sudo mysql -e “CREATE USER ‘$DB_USER’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘$DB_PASSWORD’;”
sudo mysql -e “GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON $DB_NAME.* TO ‘$DB_USER’@’localhost’;”
sudo mysql -e “FLUSH PRIVILEGES;”

Download and set up WordPress

sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/*
sudo wget -qO- https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz | sudo tar xvz -C /var/www/html/
sudo mv /var/www/html/wordpress/* /var/www/html/
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/wordpress
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/

Configure WordPress

sudo cp $WP_PATH/wp-config-sample.php $WP_PATH/wp-config.php
sudo sed -i “s/database_name_here/$DB_NAME/g” $WP_PATH/wp-config.php
sudo sed -i “s/username_here/$DB_USER/g” $WP_PATH/wp-config.php
sudo sed -i “s/password_here/$DB_PASSWORD/g” $WP_PATH/wp-config.php

Configure Apache

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/wp.techmahato.com.conf
sudo sed -i “s|DocumentRoot /var/www/html|DocumentRoot $WP_PATH|” /etc/apache2/sites-available/wp.techmahato.com.conf
sudo sed -i “s|||” /etc/apache2/sites-available/wp.techmahato.com.conf

Enable SSL with Certbot

sudo certbot –apache -d yourdomain.com

Schedule auto-renewal with a cron job

sudo crontab -l | { cat; echo “0 0 * * 0 certbot renew –quiet –post-hook ‘systemctl reload apache2′”; } | sudo crontab –

Restart Apache

sudo systemctl restart apache2

echo “WordPress with Let’s Encrypt SSL and auto-renewal has been successfully set up!”
echo “Visit $WP_URL to access your secure WordPress site.”

Finally once the above script is ready save the script and run the following command to begin the setup:

Run the script to continue to the setup automated_wordpress_apache_ssl_script.sh