Step 1. Create an Application Load Balancer

  • Connect to your WordPress instance created in Lab1
  • Move into WordPress folder and edit the wp-config.php file
cd /var/www/html/
nano wp-config.php
  • Add the following codes in the new line for upcoming steps
$_SERVER['HTTPS'] = 'on';

  • Use CTRL + O to save file, CTRL + X to quit nano editor

  • Visit EC2 instance page, select the public WordPress instance created in Lab1

  • Click Actions → Image and templates → Create image

  • Enter the Image name and click Create image

  • Visit EC2/Load Balancing/Load Balancers
  • Click Create Load Balancer

  • In Step 1: Select load balancer type, find Application Load Balancer and click Create

  • In Basic Configuration section, enter the name wordpress-alb
  • In Availability Zones, for VPC, choose Vpc / vpc-stack created by CloudFormation
  • For Availability Zones, select us-east-1a/PublicSubnet0 and us-east-1b/PublicSubnet1

  • In Step 2: Configure Security Settings, click Next
  • In Step 3: Configure Security Groups, for Assign a security group, choose Create a new security group
  • For Security group name, enter alb-sg
  • For VPC, choose Vpc / vpc-stack
  • Click Add rule in Inbound rules section.
  • For Type, select HTTP
  • For Source, select Anywhere-IPv4 and click Create security group

  • In Step 4: Configure Routing
  • For Target Group, select New target group
  • For Name, enter wordpress-tg
  • For Target type, select Instance and click Next: Register Targets

  • In Register Targets stage, click Next: Review
  • In Review stage, click Create