AWS EC2 Bitnami Wordpress - Can't get username or password- access denied (public key)

Question

I have installed the bitnami wordpress LAMP stack onto AWS EC2 instance free tier. The wordpress site is up and working but I cannot get into wordpress admin. I can't get the password or username for the site.

I have tried through ssh after downloading the PEM key and cd'ing to the pem key location, but I get the message: access denied (public key).

when i try to connect to the instance I get this message:

Run this command, if necessary, to ensure your key is not publicly viewable. chmod 400 "example-name"

Connect to your instance using its Public DNS:

ec2-...,.eu-north-1.compute.amazonaws.com. ssh -i "keypair-name.pem" [email protected]

I have removed the personal details from the above but followed the correct format

when I do this I get access denied (public key). The solutions online seem not to work or are out of date. I tried creating another key but that got the same result.

The other solution here does not seem relevant since I followed simple instructions: Permission denied (publickey) when SSH Access to Amazon EC2 instance

Answer 1

To obtain WordPress Admin credentials for a Bitnami instance, use the instructions found at Find application credentials:

• Use Get System Log in the EC2 management console (with the instance selected)
• Copy the password displayed
• Use it on the WordPress instance