title: Using amazon RDS with WordPress over SSL
body: <p>I'm migrating our WordPress database to RDS which is also being used by other services in our infrastructure. But I couldn't find any configuration option for <code>wp-config.php</code> where I could specify that SSL to be used while connecting to the server. This would also need a reference to the <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem" rel="nofollow noreferrer">certificate authority file</a> provided by Amazon. The app server on which WordPress is currently running, is outside AWS cluster.</p>
  
  <p>The answers I could find were <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4695650">fairly old</a> (I'm using WordPress 4.2 here) and don't provide much guidance.</p>
  
  <p>How can I configure WordPress to use Amazon RDS over an SSL connection (specifying the public key)?</p>