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 a Name for the group: wordpress.

5. Select Network.

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

   Traffic direction	Description	Port range	Protocol	Source / target type	Source / target
   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 instance.

2. Under Boot disk image, in the Product search field, enter WordPress and select a public WordPress image.

3. Under Location, select an availability zone to place your VM in. If you do not know which availability zone you need, leave the default one.

4. Under Computing resources, navigate to the Custom tab and specify the required platform, number of vCPUs, and the amount of RAM:

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

5. Under Network settings:

   • In the Subnet field, select the network where you created the wordpress security group and the subnet to connect your VM to. If you do not have a subnet, create one.
   • Under Public IP, keep Auto to assign your VM a random external IP address from the Yandex Cloud pool or select a static address from the list if you reserved one in advance.
   • In the Security groups field, select the wordpress security group.

6. Under Access, select SSH key and specify the VM access data:

   • Under Login, enter the username. Do not use root or other names reserved by the OS. To perform operations requiring superuser permissions, use the sudo command.

   • In the SSH key field, select the SSH key saved in your organization user profile.

     If there are no saved SSH keys in your profile, or you want to add a new key:

     • Click Add key.
     • Enter a name for the SSH key.
     • Upload or paste the contents of the public key file. You need to create a key pair for the SSH connection to a VM yourself.
     • Click Add.

     The SSH key will be added to your organization user profile.

     If users cannot add SSH keys to their profiles in the organization, the added public SSH key will only be saved to the user profile of the VM being created.

7. Under General information, specify the VM name: wordpress.

8. Click Create VM.

It may take a few minutes to create the VM. When the VM status changes to RUNNING, you can start configuring your 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.