admin

The following are the usernames and access information for WordPress powered by Symetricore (Plus Edition) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

This applies to version 4.6.x of WordPress on Centos 7.

SSH login user

Username: centos

No password is used. You should connect to your instance using the public IP address and your public key

ssh -i mykey.pem centos@public-ip

WordPress

Access to WordPress is via a web browser at

https://public-ip
# Access the admin page
https://public-ip/wp-admin

WordPress administrator account.

username: admin 
password: aws-instance-id

The instance id is found in the AWS console under in the “Description” tab. It is formatted like this:

i-02cced9059be1aacd

Make sure you include the i- in the when you copy/paste.

More information is located here on how to locate your instance-id.

Changing the admin password

The admin password as mentioned above is set to the instance-id on boot-up of your instance. If you want to change your admin password you might find it gets reset to the instance-id on the next boot. In which case you can disable the feature by editing the file:

sudo nano /etc/symetricore/updatepassword.sh

Update the script to comment out the first mysql statement as highlighted below.

# Update admin password
#/usr/bin/mysql -u$dbuser -p$dbpass -e " $updateString1 "  $dbname

This will stop the database being updated every time your instance is booted up

Setting your Website name

For most EC2 users, the public IP address of your instance changes every time you start/stop your  instance. WordPress needs to know about this change to the public IP address for it to work correctly. There is a script in the /etc/symetricore directory that makes the need changes for you. However for some users, you might want to use another IP address for example if you have an elastic IP address you want to use for your instance. You may have changed it in the General setting tab for example

Settings

In which case you want to disable the automatic updating feature as it will overwrite your change the next time you boot up your EC instance. You can disable the feature by editing the file:

sudo nano /etc/symetricore/updatepassword.sh

Update the script to comment out the last two mysql statements as highlighted below.

# Update the IP address of the wordpress instance
#/usr/bin/mysql -u$dbuser -p$dbpass -e " $updateString2 "  $dbname
#/usr/bin/mysql -u$dbuser -p$dbpass -e " $updateString3 "  $dbname

This will stop the database from being updated every time your instance is booted up

Support

WordPress support can be found in the forums here

License

WordPress is free software licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Because WordPress is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Read the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details.

More information at https://wordpress.org/about/gpl/