Project 1

PROJECT 1 - LAMP STACK IMPLEMENTATION

CREATING AN AWS ACCOUNT AND SPINNING UP YOUR FIRST LINUX SERVER

• Create an AWS Account
• Create an IAM user with programmatic access
• Create a key pair certificate and download it
• Spin up an ec2 instance
• run chmod 400 on The key pair downloaded
• Connect to your ec2 instance over the ssh network.

THE ACTUAL WORK

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INSTALLING APACHE AND UPDATING THE FIREWALL

• sudo apt update - Always run this command when starting a new server

• sudo apt install apache2 - Install apache on your server

• sudo systemctl status apache2 - to check if your apache server is running without any errors.

• Try visiting your site using http://<ip address>:80

• Site cannot be reached - this is because I have not opened port 80 in my security group (firewall)

STEPS TO OPEN A NEW PORT IN THE SECURITY GROUPS

• In the sidebar scroll down and find security groups
• Select launch-wizard-1 - which was created when creating the server or the security group attached to the server.
• Select the inbound rules tab and click on edit

• Click on add rule

• Change custom tcp to http and port to 80 bv e my first apache server running

INSTALLING MYSQL

• sudo apt install mysql-server

• Sudo mysql

• run ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'PassWord.1'; - This set the password for the root user.

• run sudo mysql_secure_installation

INSTALLING PHP

• run sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

  • php - display dynamic content

  • hp-mysql - Allow php to communicate with mysql server

  • libapache2-mod-php - will enable apache to handle php files

• run php -v to checkthe version

CREATING VIRTUAL HOSTS FOR WEBSITES

• run the following commands

sudo mkdir /var/www/projectlamp
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/projectlamp #assign the ownership of the directory to the current user of the system.
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/projectlamp.conf

• paste this in side the file editor

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName projectlamp
    ServerAlias www.projectlamp
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/projectlamp
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

• Save the file and quit

• run the following commands

sudo a2ensite projectlamp #to enable the virtualhost created
sudo a2dissite 000-default #to disable the default site
sudo apache2ctl configtest #check syntax error in config files
sudo systemctl reload apache2 #to reload the apache server

• But the /var/www/projectlamp is empty so we create an html file to display

sudo echo 'Hello LAMP from hostname' $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname) 'with public IP' $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4) > /var/www/projectlamp/index.html

ENABLE PHP ON THE WEBSITE

• run sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

• Paste in

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    #Change this:
    #DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
    #To this:
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

• run sudo systemctl reload apache2 - this restarts the apache server

• vim /var/www/projectlamp/index.php - this creates and opens a php file in vim editor

• paste in

<?php
phpinfo();

• save changes and close the file

Visit the site again
Congratulation I now have php configured on my server

• Once you are done, delete the file content as it contains some sensitive information.

sudo rm /var/www/projectlamp/index.php