Sunday, July 14, 2019

Website Recovery and Optimization

New objective added:

"Pre1: Get website back online, editing tools recovered, www working, update wordpress, and implement SSL"

I reset the server, which got website working, got all my editing tools back online, got www. working, but that's where I ran into issues... how to FTP so wordpress can install its own stuff... and then ran outta time before looking into updating.

I also did a backup of the server's HTML folder on my computer under _work\website and server\BACKUP so I could play around without ruining the site.  Sounds like the config.wp file will be 100% needed.

WWW:
just made in AWS Route 53 tool.  Key was just using an "a".  added www. + ham. for fun.

FTP / Updating wordpress
https://entrepreneurisback.blogspot.com/search?q=ftp
particularly the "Day 37" post pointed me in the right direct
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17768201/wordpress-on-ec2-requires-ftp-credentials-to-install-plugins
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8686125/update-wordpress-theme-on-ec2
https://wordpress.org/support/article/updating-wordpress/

SSL:
http://www.howto-expert.com/how-to-get-https-setting-up-ssl-on-your-website/
...should be able to set it up with a plugin easy enough, but have to update wordpress for a decent plugin.
https://ssl-ccp.godaddy.com/wizard/create/DV_SSL/1/0?cb=&app=

NOTE: The private keys are @ _work\website and server\SSL


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