1. Create a WordPress droplet on Digital Ocean, at the time of this writing I am creating WordPress 4.7 on Ubuntu 16.04
2. Configure your domain to it points towards your newly created WordPress droplet
3. SSH into the the droplet and do the following:
SSL:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-letsencrypt-apache sudo letsencrypt --apache -d boviskoala.com -d www.boviskoala.com sudo crontab -e
hit enter and then paste this at the bottom of the config , save and exit.
30 2 * * 1 /usr/bin/letsencrypt renew >> /var/log/le-renew.log
Save your root password so you can secure mysql
sudo nano /root/.digitalocean_password
then secure your mysql:
mysql_secure_installation
then create admin user:
adduser testuser usermod -aG sudo testuser ssh-copy-id testuser@your_server_ip
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
uncomment and set these commands to the following to disable root ssh access and ssh with only password:
PasswordAuthentication no PermitRootLogin no
Reload your ssh daemon
sudo systemctl reload sshd
4. Open a browser and go to your domain and configure WordPress!
5. Create a ssh key
ssh-keygen -t rsa cat id_rsa.pub
copy the output from the cat command and save it for later use. Great for bitbucket deployment key!
6. Go back to the terminal and shut the droplet down
shutdown -h now
7. Create a snapshot backup through Digital Ocean of your fully configured droplet thats perfect
8. Power it back up through Digital Ocean
More info:
http://do.co/wordpressapp
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-16-04
