Wordpress

This app contains a ready to use WordPress installation including MySQL and Apache2. You can install it via the Hetzner Cloud Console or the Hetzner Cloud API.

WordPress is an open source content management system that allows you to create a website or blog in minutes.

Getting started

Create your server on our Hetzner Cloud Console. Instead of an image, you will be able to choose the app that you would like to have preinstalled on your server.

WordPress is preinstalled when the image is booted, but it is not enabled.

In order to enable WordPress and create your admin user, first, please log into your server:

Via SSH key, if you selected one when you created the server
Via root password, which will be mailed to you if you created a server without selecting an SSH key

This will guide you through the process and give you additional Let's Encrypt support. If you choose to skip Let's Encrypt, you will still be able to activate it another time (see Activate Let's Encrypt post installation).

When you are done, you will be able to use WordPress as usual from the web.

Hetzner Cloud API

In addition to the Hetzner Cloud Console you can also use the Hetzner Cloud API to set up a server with pre-installed WordPress.

For example with a curl command via CLI

curl \
   -X POST \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_TOKEN" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -d '{"name":"my-server", "server_type":"cpx21", "image":"wordpress"}' \
   'https://api.hetzner.cloud/v1/servers'

Or via hcloud-cli

hcloud server create --name my-server --type cpx21 --image wordpress

Activate Let's Encrypt post installation

Let’s Encrypt provides digital certificates that are needed to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites.

To activate Let's Encrypt after the initial script has run, please follow the steps below.

Run Certbot (preinstalled) with the Apache plugin
```
certbot --apache
```
It will guide you through the process of obtaining a valid SSL certificate.
Restart Apache
```
systemctl restart apache2
```

Image content

Base OS

Ubuntu 24.04

Installed packages

This image contains Apache, MySQL and several PHP extensions as packages and WordPress from source.

NAME	LICENSE
WordPress	GPL 2
Apache	Apache 2
MySQL server	GPL 2 with modifications

Several PHP extensions as packages

Passwords

We use auto-generated passwords which are stored in:

/root/.hcloud_password