How to setup LAMP server on AWS using Amazon Linux AMI
Category: Tech Stuff | Posted on: 2020-01-06 19:24:09 | Updated on: 2020-11-11 17:52:59 | Posted by: Admin User
Steps to install Apache web server, PHP and MySQL on your Amazon Linux 2018.03.0 (HVM) instance
The following steps will help you to install an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL on your Amazon Linux instance.
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- Launch EC2 Instance:
- Sign into your AWS account and go to "EC2" service section.
- In "EC2 Dashboard" click "Launch Instance" button.
- Select "Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03.0 (HVM), SSD Volume Type".
- In next screen, select appropriate instance type. You can choose the one which is marked "Free tier eligible" to get started. This can be changed later.
- Click "Review and Launch" button.
- During this process, you will asked to select a "Key Pair" to use with this instance. You can either use an existing key pair or create a new one.
- Download the key pair that you selected. Let's say you saved it with name
myserver.pem
- Launch the instance.
- Install Apache/PHP/MySQL:
- On your local system, using the terminal, navigate to the directory where you stored the
myserver.pem file.
- Update permissions for this file -
chmod 400 myserver.pem
- SSH into your instance using following command:
ssh -i "myserver.pem" ec2-user@{your public dns}
- You can get the public DNS by selecting your instance in the "Instances" page
- Example:
ssh -i "myserver.pem" ec2-user@ec2-xx-xx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
- Update your instance:
- Install Apache, PHP and MySQL:
sudo yum install -y httpd24 php72 mysql57-server php72-mysqlnd
- Start the Apache Web Server:
- Configure the Apache web server to start whenever system boots:
- Verify the configuration:
chkconfig --list httpd- It should show following:
httpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
- Make sure that the security group used by the instance allows HTTP traffic (port 80)
- Go to your Public DNS, it shall show Apache test page similar to following:
- Add/update files to document root:
- By default Apache document root directory is
/var/www/html and ec2-user doesn't have permissions to update files in this directory.
- To allow
ec2-user to make changes to this directory, we need to change the ownership and permissions of this directory.
- We will add
ec2-user to apache group and then give apache group ownership of the /var/www directory
sudo usermod -a -G apache ec2-user
- Logout and SSH to your instance again
exitssh -i "myserver.pem" ec2-user@ec2-xx-xx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
- Verify that you have been added to apache group:
groups
- It shall list apache in the groups list, such as:
ec2-user wheel apache
- Change ownership of
/var/www directory
sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /var/www
- Provide write permissions to the group
sudo chmod 2775 /var/wwwfind /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;
- Test your LAMP server:
- Create a PHP file named phpinfo.php in your server's document root
/var/www/html/phpinfo.php
- It shall just have following content:
- In web browser, visit above file using the public DNS of your instance such as:
http://ec2-xx-xx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/phpinfo.php
- You should see PHP info page similar to following
- Configure database server:
- Start the MySQL server:
sudo service mysqld start
- Execute mysql_secure_installation command to setup root user password and other settings
sudo mysql_secure_installation
- When prompted, enter password for the root user and make sure to save it
- By default the root account does not have any password so you can simply press Enter when asked for root password
- Type Y to remove anonymous user accounts
- Type Y to disable remote root login
- Type Y to remove the test database
- Type Y to reload the privilege tables and save your changes
- To start MySQL server on every boot: