How to Connect to Your WordPress Server on AWS using a SSH client

You created an AWS virtual server instance and installed WordPress on it. Your WordPress site is public on the internet. You still need to manage your server such as adding a free SSL certificate to your website.

In this article, I show you how you can access to your server to manage it using a SSH client. We are going to use PuTTY.

Step 1: Download PuTTY

Step 2: Install and Open PuTTY program.

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How to add free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt to WordPress on AWS

Adding SSL certificates to your website is now important. This will enable your visitors to communicate with your website securely. Since Google now consider SSL as one of its ranking factors, this implementation will help improve your SEO ranking.

The following instruction is for WordPress site on AWS that was deployed using Bitnami stack.

Step 1: Login to your AWS server using a SSH client

Step 2: Install Git

sudo apt-get install git

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