LAMP instance install wordpress tutorial not working as expected.

Question

Following this tutorial
https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/lightsail-instance-install-wordpress

3. 
```
sudo cp -pr /tmp/wordpress/* /var/www/html/
```

This folder doesnt exist.

(i created it after this error and continued the tutorial)
after finishing the procedure, neither of these commands worked

Restart the Apache service: CentOS and Amazon Linux 2

```
$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
```

Ubuntu and Debian versions

```
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2
```

getting this error
Failed to restart apache2.service: Unit apache2.service not found.

Ended up loading the public IP and getting the LAMP startup page.

i think the LAMP HTML folder  is different from the tutorial. can you confirm ?

Boaz · Answer

Yes, now i see, thank you.
need to go through this one first
https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/lightsail-instance-install-lamp-stack
though i dont think it cover the Linux 2023

Steve_M · Answer

> ```
> sudo cp -pr /tmp/wordpress/* /var/www/html/
> ```
> This folder doesnt exist.

Which folder didn't exist, `/tmp/wordpress` or `/var/www/html`? If it was `/var/www/html` that didn't exist then you must have missed a step when you [installed the LAMP stack](https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/lightsail-instance-install-lamp-stack) as the step to install Apache should have created this.

This also ties in with what you say about neither of the `sudo systemctl ....` commands worked. One of these should definitely have worked if Apache was properly installed.

Boaz · Answer

Hi Steve, i installed LAMP just by clicking the adding the instance button, not manually.
could it be that the installation was not complete ? that it takes time ?

LAMP instance install wordpress tutorial not working as expected.

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