How to install a fresh wordpress

[Adnan Mahmud]

Hello there,

I would like to know how can I install a fresh wordpress on my VM instance without changing the external IP address.

https://prnt.sc/v1wtpx

[Alexis (Google Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi,

With your picture, I can't tell if you are using an ephemeral IP. If you are, the first thing to do would be to promote your ephemeral external IP to a static external IP. There's more information about this here[1]

Also, for resetting the data on your VM... Your Wordpress is just software you installed on our virtual machine (GCE instance). So, if you wipe the VM clean and use the same method to install as before, it should be fine. Unless you utilized a method that automatically installed WP along with the VM bundled with it? You will have to specify if you did it differently. In short, this[2] procedure allows you to delete the instance. You can experiment with stopping/restarting/delete instances and be free to do as you wish without loosing your IP as long as it's depicted as a static IP in our systems. Updating to a static IP (and not choosing to deleted it in your configurations) is your safest bet to do this properly. Once it's static, you can delete and recreate, this can sometimes be as fast as a manual format. If a manual format is what you want, you can log in using SSH into your VM and do a normal wipe like on any other machine. A search for you OS command line on how to wipe could help. However, most people prefer to completely delete the instance (once they have a static IP) since it's as fast and especially if you have a bundle of configuring the VM + Wordpress.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/reserve-static-external-ip-address#reserve_new_static

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/deleting-instance

[Adnan Mahmud]

Hello Alexis  
Thank you so much for your reply. Please check this screenshot: https://prnt.sc/v2p5zi . I have reserve my IP address and as you can see from the screenshot I've deleted my previous VM instances. 

Now I would like to know how can I install VM + Wopress on the same IP address with one click way. I am not an expert in the command line.

Thank you

[Elliott (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello,

I've found some good Google Documentation that describes a friendly way to do Wordpress on GCP. Please follow the link here[1] and see if it helps you.

Thank you,

[1] https://cloud.google.com/wordpress