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title: "Accessing Wordpress"
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### Testing public URL

{{% notice warning %}}
It may take a few minutes for the LoadBalancer to be available.
{{% /notice %}}

You’ll need the URL for your WordPress site. This is easily accomplished by running the command below from your terminal window.

```bash
export SERVICE_URL=$(kubectl get svc -n wordpress-cwi understood-zebu-wordpress --template "{{ range (index .status.loadBalancer.ingress 0) }}{{.}}{{ end }}")

echo "Public URL: http://$SERVICE_URL/"
```

You should see the _Hello World_ WordPress welcome page.
![WP Hello World](/images/ekscwci/wp_hello_world.png)

### Testing the admin interface

```bash
export ADMIN_URL="http://$SERVICE_URL/admin"
export ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace wordpress-cwi understood-zebu-wordpress -o jsonpath="{.data.wordpress-password}" | base64 --decode)

echo "Admin URL: http://$SERVICE_URL/admin
Username: user
Password: $ADMIN_PASSWORD
"
```

In your favorite browser paste in your Wordpress Admin URL from the Installing Wordpress section. You should be greeted with the following screen.
![WP Login Page](/images/ekscwci/wploginpage.png)

Enter your username and password to make sure they work.

If you are taken to the below screen, you have a successfully running Wordpress install backed by MaiaDB in your EKS Cluster.

![Wordpress Dashboard](/images/ekscwci/wpdashboard.png)

Now that we have verified that the site is working we can continue with getting CloudWatch Container Insights installed on our cluster!