ClassicPress on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

ClassicPress is the community led, business focused fork of WordPress. It keeps the familiar, stable content management experience that millions of sites rely on and stays fully compatible with the WordPress plugin and theme ecosystem, so you get a lean, predictable CMS without giving up the tools you already know. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, with ClassicPress 2.7 served by Apache 2.4 and PHP 8.3 and a bundled local MySQL 8.0 server, so the appliance is complete and useful on its own within minutes of launch.

The install is completed headlessly with WP-CLI, so the public install wizard is never exposed. The ClassicPress database is installed and ready, and unique MySQL, application database and administrator passwords are generated on the first boot of every VM and written to a root only file, so no shared or default passwords ship in the image. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, and start managing pages, posts, menus, media, users, plugins and themes, with full access to the WordPress plugin and theme ecosystem.

The image is host agnostic: it derives its runtime URL from the request host, so the site renders on the VM public IP, on 127.0.0.1, or on any domain you point at it, with no site URL rewrite needed. The bundled MySQL listens only on the loopback interface and is never exposed to the network, and Apache serves the site on port 80. For production, front port 80 with your own domain and TLS.

ClassicPress is free and open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. This image is an independent packaging of the open source ClassicPress software by cloudimg and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the ClassicPress project or the ClassicPress Initiative. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.