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WordPress

WordPress 7.1 already installed - no five-minute setup - with WP-CLI, Apache, PHP 8.3, MySQL 8.0, phpMyAdmin, Webmin and certbot ready for the day you add a domain. The site address follows your public IP safely (only hostnames the instance owns are honoured), wp-cron runs from real cron, and plugin installs never ask for FTP.

Version
v7.1
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Architecture
x86_64
Support
Community

What's installed

Every package and version on the image. Nothing else is installed.

  • WordPress 7.1
  • WP-CLI 2.12.0
  • Apache 2.4.58
  • PHP 8.3.6
  • MySQL 8.0.46
  • phpMyAdmin 5.2.3
  • Webmin 2.660
  • certbot

Licensing — Open source (GPL-2.0), no licence key required

Deploy anywhere

WordPress on AWS.

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are next on the roadmap. One clean-room build, one first-boot credential model, one patch cadence — identical on every cloud you run. Every identifier below is the real one; copy it and launch.

  1. AWS

    Amazon Web Services

    AMI · v7.1

    Available

    AWS AMI ID

    ami-0bc3f3238bc49d522
    Released
    September 10, 2026
    Root volume
    gp3 · 30 GiB

    Instance types

    • t3a.medium
    • t3.medium
    • t3a.large
    • m6a.large

    Regions

    • us-east-1
    AWS launch steps

Getting started

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Launch in us-east-1 with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open; wait two to three minutes.

  2. Site: http://<instance-public-ip>/. Admin: http://<instance-public-ip>/wp-admin, username admin. phpMyAdmin: /phpmyadmin (username root). Webmin: port 8000 (username admin). The password for all three is your EC2 Instance ID (for example i-0123456789abcdef0).

  3. Add your own domain with sudo bash /home/ubuntu/iscripts/wp_url.sh, then sudo certbot --apache -d your.domain for free HTTPS.

  4. SSH as ubuntu with your key pair. Change passwords with pass_wordpress.sh, pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh; wordpress_status.sh shows versions, endpoints, post counts and available updates.

  5. PHP allows 64 MB uploads and 512 MB memory. MySQL is loopback-only.

Security posture

What this image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image: every component comes from its own official repository or release, nothing is copied from any third-party image, and the finished image was scanned for third-party vendor strings before capture.

  • No usable credential ships in the image; passwords are set on your instance at first boot from EC2 instance metadata (IMDSv2) and the scripts that set them delete themselves afterwards.

  • SSH is key-only, root login over SSH is refused, and build-time SSH keys, shell history and logs were removed before imaging.

  • WordPress was fetched from wordpress.org with md5 verified, WP-CLI from its official phar with sha512 verified, and phpMyAdmin with sha256 verified.

  • First boot generates fresh WordPress salts, a new database password, the admin password, the phpMyAdmin cookie key and control-user password, and the MySQL root and maintenance passwords, then proves the admin login with a real wp-login.php round trip.

  • Site URL derivation accepts only hostnames the instance owns, refreshed every boot, so Host-header injection cannot rewrite the site address.

  • MySQL is loopback-only.

  • The bundled password tools enforce at least 10 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, a number and a symbol, and verify the new credential with a real sign-in before reporting success.

  • The image is HTTP-only by design so it works at a bare IP with no certificate warnings: terminate TLS at a load balancer or add a certificate before exposing it publicly, and restrict port 22 and any admin ports to trusted IP ranges in your security group.