What is Bitnami password for Lightsail?

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Prabhu Balakrishnan
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Below are some quick answers to login to your lightsail instance for first time lightsail users. Launch the commandline.

Get your username

  • WordPress, including WordPress Multisite
    • WordPress Application user name: user
    • Mysql Database user name: root

Get your Password

This will be your first command on the commandline.

cat bitnami_application_password

WordPress Location

/opt/bitnami/wordpress

There is no file manager, phpmyadmin, email, cpanel etc comes with lightsail (unless you want to pay).

Apache Error Log

The logs will help you to pinpoint what php or wordpress errors caused your website to crash. The location of log file is

/opt/bitnami/apache/logs/error_log 

Emails

Emails or contact form with your domain name does not work, since instance is not mail server. You have to set up and configure email SES amazon. Verify and create new email account there, create keys, then come back to wordpress and install WordPress SMTP mail plugin. Refer to how to enable email on lightsail.

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Prabhu Balakrishnan

Founder of Corpocrat Magazine. He has 15+ years experience in computers, finance, banking, insurance and citizenship consulting. Expert in Linux servers, Machine learning and Crypto. He lives in Budapest, Hungary.