Lightsail Wordpress - Welcome to nginx!

Question

Hi Everbody,

I have been using Bitnami Wordpress on AWS Lightsail for a year now.  When I go the home page (www.connorpek.com), now it now says "Welcome to nginx!".  I didn't change any configuration files in the terminal, and my wordpress content seems to be in the right file locations.

My Wordpress installation lives at the same file path as everybody else with Bitnami wordpress, which is `home/bitnami/stack/wordpress`.  Research indicated my server isn't pointing my home page to the right file, which should be `home/bitnami/stack/wordpress/index.php` like everyone elses. Research also indicates I could make that change in the `.htaccess` file, but I am unable to locate that file in my Lightsail Bitnami Wordpress installation.  Research also indicates the PHP logs would give me more detail, but I'm unauthorized to access files in`home/bitnami/stack/php/logs`.

Thanks a bunch,
Connor

Accepted Answer

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for the insight. Yes somehow I downloaded Nginx and I had to disable it then boom, the website worked again. I disabled Nginx by using the following command before rebooting.

```
sudo update-rc.d -f nginx disable
```

After rebooting, Nginx doesnt show up on the list with either of the following commands.

```
sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh status
ps aux | grep -i nginx
```

```
systemctl list-units
```

At this point the website started working.  This problem was solved in part with assistance on Bitnami support people [over on Githib](https://github.com/bitnami/vms/issues/339).

Thanks a bunch,
Connor

Answer

The Bitnami WordPress image used on Lightsail works with Apache and PHP-FPM – not nginx. First disable nginx and confirm that apache is running, then try to access your site again.

Typically an `index.php` is the default file called for a given folder, so it's unlikely adding it explicitly would fix your issue.

The logs in `home/bitnami/stack/php/logs/` are owned by `root` user so you need a command like `sudo zless /home/bitnami/stack/php/logs/php-fpm.log-.gz` or just `sudo less ` for the most recent log files.

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