SYS 360 Lab 5 1: LAMP Stack in AWS Part 1 - JadenGil/Jaden-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Preparing LAMP server:

To start things off we will make a security group and key pair using the same steps in previous labs

Then we will create a new instance that must be running Amazon Linux 2 as an AMI:

Make sure to use the security group and keypair that we just made!

Once the instance is launched we want to SSH into the machine via CMD:

We want to make sure that everything is up to date so run a quick sudo yum update -y

Then we want to Install the lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 and php7.2 Amazon Linux Extras repositories which we can do with the command sudo amazon-linux-extras install -y lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 php7.2

Then we want to install the Apache web server, MariaDB, and PHP software packages with the command sudo yum install -y httpd mariadb-server

We can check the versions of these software using yum info software name

Then we want to start and enable httpd:

With httpd now enabled and started we can go to the public IP of our LAMP instance and the apache test page should load:

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Allowing ec2-user Permissions:

Using the command in this screenshot we can elevate ec2-user to a root user:

Then we will exit the SSH session and immediately SSH back in. With that done, you should see that ec2-user is now in the admin group:

Now that the user is admin we will want to change ownership of /var/www:

With those commands executed ec2-user and any future members of the Apache group we made can add, delete, and edit files in the Apache document root

Deliverable 1:

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Testing the LAMP Server:

In CMD run the command echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Now if we add /phpinfo.php to our URL we will be shown the PHP information page

Deliverable 2:

Now we can delete the phpinfo file from the directory: