Creating a WordPress website using the management console

1. In the management console, select Virtual Private Cloud.

2. Open the Security groups tab.

3. Click Create group.

4. Enter the name of the group: wordpress.

5. Select the Network.

6. Under Rules, create the following rules using the instructions below the table:

   Traffic direction	Description	Port range	Protocol	Source/ destination type	Source / destination
   Outgoing	any	All	Any	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
   Incoming	ext-http	80	TCP	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
   Incoming	ext-https	443	TCP	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0

   1. Select the Outgoing traffic or Incoming traffic tab.
   2. Click Add rule.
   3. In the Port range window that opens, specify the port to receive traffic. Do not indicate anything for outgoing traffic.
   4. In the Protocol field, specify the required protocol. For outgoing traffic, leave Any to allow traffic over all protocols.
   5. In the Destination or Source field, select the CIDR, and the rule is applied to a range of IP addresses. In the CIDR bloсks field, enter 0.0.0.0/0.
   6. Click Save. Repeat the steps to create all the rules from the table.

7. Click Save.

1. On the folder page in the management console, click Create resource and select Virtual machine.

   

2. In the Name field, enter wordpress as the VM name. The naming requirements are as follows:

   • The name must be from 3 to 63 characters long.
   • It may contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers, and hyphens.
   • The first character must be a letter and the last character cannot be a hyphen.

3. Select an availability zone to place your VM in.

4. Under Image/boot disk selection, click the Cloud Marketplace tab and select WordPress as your public image.

   

5. Under Computing resources:

   • Choose a platform.
   • Specify the required number of vCPUs and the amount of RAM.

   The minimum configuration is enough for testing:

   • Platform: Intel Ice Lake
   • vCPU: 2
   • Guaranteed vCPU share: 20%
   • RAM: 1 GB

6. In Network settings, select the subnet to connect the VM to once it is created.

7. In Public address, select Automatically.

   

8. In Security group, select the wordpress group.

9. Specify the VM access data:

   • Enter the username in the Login field.

   • In the SSH key field, paste the contents of the public key file.

     You will need to create a key pair for the SSH connection yourself. For more information, see Connecting to a Linux VM via SSH.

10. Click Create VM.

It may take a few minutes to create a VM. When the VM's status changes to RUNNING, you can begin configuring the website.

Once created, the VM is assigned an IP address and a host name (FQDN). This data can be used when configuring the DNS and SSH access.

To add a public DNS zone:

1. Open the Cloud DNS section of the folder where you need to create a DNS zone.
2. Click Create zone.
3. Specify the DNS zone settings:
   • Zone: example.com.. You can provide you registered domain instead.
   • Type: Public.
   • Name: example-zone-1.
4. Click Create.

1. Under Network on the VM page in the management console, find the VM's public IP address.
2. Create an A record:
   • Open the Cloud DNS section of the folder containing the example.com DNS zone.
   • Select the example.com DNS zone from the list.
   • Click Create record.
   • Set the record parameters:
     • Name: Leave empty.
     • Type: Keep А as the value.
     • Data: Enter your VM's public address.
     • TTL (in seconds) (record time to live): Keep the default value.
   • Click Create.
3. Create a CNAME record:
   • Select the example.com DNS zone from the list.
   • Click Create record.
   • Set the record parameters:
     • Name: www.
     • Type: Keep CNAME as the value.
     • Data: Enter example.com.
     • TTL (in seconds) (record time to live): Keep the default value.
   • Click Create.

After the wordpress VM's status changes to RUNNING, do the following:

1. Under Network on the VM page in the management console, find the VM's public IP address and enter it in the A resource record you previously created.

   

2. Open the domain name you configured or the VM's address in the browser.

3. Select the language and click Continue.

   

4. Fill out information to access the website:

   1. Enter any name for the website (for example, yc-wordpress).
   2. Specify the username to be used to log in to the admin panel (for example, yc-user).
   3. Enter the password to be used to log in to the admin panel.
   4. Enter your email address.

   

5. Click Install WordPress.

6. If the installation is successful, click Log in.

   

7. Log in to the website with the username and password specified in the previous steps. This will open the admin panel where you can start working with your website.

8. Make sure the website is accessible by opening the VM's public IP address in your browser.