WordPress One-Click Application Quickstart - whats going on here

Hey friend,

Great questions. The one-click is more tailored to the new user who just wants to spin up a working system, or the advanced user who just wants to skip some steps and go straight to production. If you need to automate deployments it makes more sense to build your own deploy scripts. We may frequently update our one-click images to address software updates, vulnerabilities, new practices, or to address common misunderstandings that drive ticket volume. These can happen without notice, and we do not keep a public change-log (not against it, just not something we currently do), as they have no impact on previously deployed systems.

While there are other systems out there to assist in automating software deployments, we offer a function that can help you deploy direct from our control panel or API:

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/resources/metadata/

We actually have an example for using this to deploy Wordpress on Ubuntu 16 (shouldn’t be much adjustment for 18):

https://github.com/digitalocean/do_user_scripts/blob/master/Ubuntu-16.04/cms/wordpress.sh

With that said, I’ll ping @ryanpq and see if he can provide some answers about the current iteration of the Wordpress one-click.

Jarland

Hello everyone,

If you’re having trouble running the WordPress setup script on your DigitalOcean Droplet, here’s a quick guide to help you get started:

1. Locate the Script: The WordPress setup script is typically located at /root/wp_setup.sh on your Droplet.

2. Execute the Script: You can manually run the setup script by using the following command in your terminal: sh /root/wp_setup.sh

3. Follow the Prompts: Running this command will initiate the WordPress installation process, guiding you through the configuration of your website.

For your ease, you can copy the below code to an executable file on your Droplet to run the WP setup process. The below code is actually the default wp_setup.sh content available with every WordPress image on Marketplace.

#!/bin/bash
#
# WordPress activation script
#
# This script will configure Apache with the domain
# provided by the user and offer the option to set up
# LetsEncrypt as well.

# Enable WordPress on first login
if [[ -d /var/www/wordpress ]]
then
  mv /var/www/html /var/www/html.old
  mv /var/www/wordpress /var/www/html
fi
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/html

# if applicable, configure wordpress to use mysql dbaas
if [ -f "/root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials" ] && [ "$(sed -n "s/^db_protocol=\"\([^:]*\):.*\"$/\1/p" /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials)" = "mysql" ]; then
  # grab all the data from the password file
  username=$(sed -n "s/^db_username=\"\(.*\)\"$/\1/p" /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials)
  password=$(sed -n "s/^db_password=\"\(.*\)\"$/\1/p" /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials)
  host=$(sed -n "s/^db_host=\"\(.*\)\"$/\1/p" /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials)
  port=$(sed -n "s/^db_port=\"\(.*\)\"$/\1/p" /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials)
  database=$(sed -n "s/^db_database=\"\(.*\)\"$/\1/p" /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials)

  # update the wp-config.php with stored credentials
  sed -i "s/'DB_USER', '.*'/'DB_USER', '$username'/g" /var/www/html/wp-config.php;
  sed -i "s/'DB_NAME', '.*'/'DB_NAME', '$database'/g" /var/www/html/wp-config.php;
  sed -i "s/'DB_PASSWORD', '.*'/'DB_PASSWORD', '$password'/g" /var/www/html/wp-config.php;
  sed -i "s/'DB_HOST', '.*'/'DB_HOST', '$host:$port'/g" /var/www/html/wp-config.php;

  # add required SSL flag
  cat >> /var/www/html/wp-config.php <<EOM
/** Connect to MySQL cluster over SSL **/
define( 'MYSQL_CLIENT_FLAGS', MYSQLI_CLIENT_SSL );
EOM

  # wait for db to become available
  echo -e "\nWaiting for your database to become available (this may take a few minutes)"
  while ! mysqladmin ping -h "$host" -P "$port" --silent; do
      printf .
      sleep 2
  done
  echo -e "\nDatabase available!\n"

  # cleanup
  unset username password host port database
  rm -f /root/.digitalocean_dbaas_credentials

  # disable the local MySQL instance
  systemctl stop mysql.service
  systemctl disable mysql.service
fi

echo "This script will copy the WordPress installation into"
echo "Your web root and move the existing one to /var/www/html.old"
echo "--------------------------------------------------"
echo "This setup requires a domain name.  If you do not have one yet, you may"
echo "cancel this setup, press Ctrl+C.  This script will run again on your next login"
echo "--------------------------------------------------"
echo "Enter the domain name for your new WordPress site."
echo "(ex. example.org or test.example.org) do not include www or http/s"
echo "--------------------------------------------------"

a=0
while [ $a -eq 0 ]
do
 read -p "Domain/Subdomain name: " dom
 if [ -z "$dom" ]
 then
  a=0
  echo "Please provide a valid domain or subdomain name to continue or press Ctrl+C to cancel"
 else
  a=1
fi
done
sed -i "s/\$domain/$dom/g"  /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
a2enconf block-xmlrpc

service apache2 restart

echo -en "Now we will create your new admin user account for WordPress."

function wordpress_admin_account(){

  while [ -z $email ]
  do
    echo -en "\n"
    read -p "Your Email Address: " email
  done

  while [ -z $username ]
  do
    echo -en "\n"
    read -p  "Username: " username
  done

  while [ -z $pass ]
  do
    echo -en "\n"
    read -s -p "Password: " pass
    echo -en "\n"
  done

  while [ -z "$title" ]
  do
    echo -en "\n"
    read -p "Blog Title: " title
  done
}

wordpress_admin_account

while true
do
    echo -en "\n"
    read -p "Is the information correct? [Y/n] " confirmation
    confirmation=${confirmation,,}
    if [[ "${confirmation}" =~ ^(yes|y)$ ]] || [ -z $confirmation ]
    then
      break
    else
      unset email username pass title confirmation
      wordpress_admin_account
    fi
done

echo -en "\n\n\n"
echo "Next, you have the option of configuring LetsEncrypt to secure your new site.  Before doing this, be sure that you have pointed your domain or subdomain to this server's IP address.  You can also run LetsEncrypt certbot later with the command 'certbot --apache'"
echo -en "\n\n\n"
 read -p "Would you like to use LetsEncrypt (certbot) to configure SSL(https) for your new site? (y/n): " yn
    case $yn in
        [Yy]* ) certbot --apache; echo "WordPress has been enabled at https://$dom  Please open this URL in a browser to complete the setup of your site.";break;;
        [Nn]* ) echo "Skipping LetsEncrypt certificate generation";break;;
        * ) echo "Please answer y or n.";;
    esac

echo "Finalizing installation..."
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar -O /usr/bin/wp
chmod +x /usr/bin/wp

echo -en "Completing the configuration of WordPress."
wp core install --allow-root --path="/var/www/html" --title="$title" --url="$dom" --admin_email="$email"  --admin_password="$pass" --admin_user="$username"

wp plugin install wp-fail2ban --allow-root --path="/var/www/html"
wp plugin activate wp-fail2ban --allow-root --path="/var/www/html"
chown -Rf www-data.www-data /var/www/
cp /etc/skel/.bashrc /root

echo "Installation complete. Access your new WordPress site in a browser to continue."