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 security group.

4. Specify the group Name: wordpress.

5. Select 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
   Egress	any	All	Any	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
   Ingress	ext-http	80	TCP	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
   Inbound	ext-https	443	TCP	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0
   Inbound	ext-ssh	22	TCP	CIDR	0.0.0.0/0

   1. Select the Egress or Ingress tab.
   2. Click Add.
   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 name or Source field, select CIDR for the rule to apply to a range of IP addresses. In the CIDR blocks field, enter 0.0.0.0; in the list after /, select 0.
   6. Click Save. Repeat these steps to create all 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 the availability zone where your VM will reside. If you are not sure which one to choose, leave the default.

4. Under Computing resources, navigate to the Custom tab and specify the platform, number of vCPUs, and 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 address, keep Auto for the VM to get a random external IP address from the Yandex Cloud pool, or select a static address from the list if you had reserved one.
   • In the Security groups field, select the wordpress security group.

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

   • In the Login field, enter the username. Do not use root or other names reserved for the OS purposes. To perform operations requiring root privileges, use the sudo command.

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

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

     1. Click Add key.

     2. Enter a name for the SSH key.

     3. Select one of the following:

        • Enter manually: Paste the contents of the public SSH key. You need to create an SSH key pair on your own.

        • Load from file: Upload the public part of the SSH key. You need to create an SSH key pair on your own.

        • Generate key: Automatically create an SSH key pair.

          When adding a new SSH key, an archive containing the key pair will be created and downloaded. In Linux or macOS-based operating systems, unpack the archive to the /home/<user_name>/.ssh directory. In Windows, unpack the archive to the C:\Users\<user_name>/.ssh directory. You do not need additionally enter the public key in the management console.

     4. Click Add.

     The system will add the SSH key to your organization user profile. If the organization has disabled the ability for users to add SSH keys to their profiles, the added public SSH key will only be saved in the user profile inside the newly created resource.

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

8. Click Create VM.

It may take a few minutes to create your 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.. Or specify your registered domain.
   • 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.
   • Specify the record settings:
     • Name: Leave empty.
     • Type: Leave set to A.
     • 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.
   • Specify the record settings:
     • Name: www.
     • Type: Select CNAME.
     • Data: Enter example.com.
     • TTL (in seconds) (record time to live): Keep the default value.
   • Click Create.

1. In the management console, go to the VM page, find the VM public IP address under Network, and add it to the type A resource record you created earlier.

   

2. In your browser, open the WordPress admin panel using the domain name you configured or the VM's address: http://<domain_name_or_VM_public_address>/wp-admin.

3. Enter the username and password you saved earlier.