AWS Lightsail - Load Balanced WP E2

AWS Lightsail for Beginners – Setup Load Balanced WordPress Site Ep 2 (Database service)

/ AWS Lightsail Hosting, High Availability Websites / By / aws database, cluster setup, database service, mysql service, Optimizations, s3

This is the 2nd episode of the tutorials where I show you how to setup a High Availability Load Balanced WordPress website using Lightsail. In this video we setup a Lightsail Database service, Export database, and import database into the new Database service. At the end of this video we have a WordPress site that uses S3 for File storage and LightSail Database for remote data storage.

Steps in this video:

  1. Create a Database service in Lightsail
  2. Export our WordpRess database from the existing WordPress website
  3. Import the database into the new Database service
  4. Update the Connection string in WordPress
  5. Finally test that WordPress website is still functioning.

Export MySQL command used in the video:

mysqldump -u root -p bitnami_wordpress [right angle bracket] wpdatabase.s
ql --databases --add-drop-database

Remember to replace the name of the database to match your database name and also the export file name.

To Import the Database, use these commands:

Login to Mysql Server:
mysql -u dbmasteruser -p -h yourmysqlhostnamehere

\. databasefilename.sql

Hope this is useful. If you have any questions or run into issues, comment below. I’ll try to help best as I can.

Episode 1 Video

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