Easy Digital Downloads on Ubuntu 24.04

Easy Digital Downloads is an open source ecommerce platform built on WordPress and dedicated to selling digital goods rather than physical stock. Every product is a download: ebooks, software, plugins, themes, music, photography, design assets or documents. It gives you a complete shopping cart and checkout, secure file delivery with access control so paid files cannot be shared by URL, discount codes, customer records and purchase histories, and detailed sales and earnings reporting. Because it runs on WordPress you keep the familiar admin, the theme ecosystem and a REST API alongside the commerce features. This image delivers it fully installed and activated so a working storefront is operational within minutes of launch.

Secure by default

This image ships no default login and no shared credential. The database used to build and verify the image is destroyed before capture, so no working administrator account exists inside the image at all. On each virtual machine's first boot a fresh store administrator account, a unique WordPress database password and a unique MySQL root password are generated and written to a credentials file readable only by root. No two deployments are ever the same, and there is no well known password to change.

Ready on first boot

• Easy Digital Downloads is already activated, so the Checkout, Receipt, Order History, Confirmation and Products pages exist the moment the instance boots.
• The site address is resolved automatically on first boot, and the image derives its address from the host you browse it on, so the storefront works on the public IP immediately and keeps working unchanged when you later point a domain name at it.
• Pretty permalinks are configured, which the download and checkout URLs depend on.
• Apache, MySQL and PHP are drawn entirely from the Ubuntu 24.04 archive with no third party repositories, and the operating system is fully patched at capture time with unattended security upgrades enabled for the customer VM.
• WP CLI is installed for scripted administration and bulk product imports.

Why cloudimg

cloudimg delivers Easy Digital Downloads and WordPress fully patched and hardened on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, working on first boot, with per instance credentials and no default login. Every image passes an automated fifteen point verification gate against a fresh virtual machine launched from the exact published image, and a deployment guide is written and executed against that same image before release. Backed by 24/7 support with a guaranteed 24 hour response SLA.

Licensing

Easy Digital Downloads is open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later, and WordPress is distributed under the same licence. Both are free. The cloudimg charge covers packaging, hardening, security patching, image maintenance and 24/7 support. A step by step deployment guide is provided.