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Screenshot of Apache Test Page (showing address bar with your EC2 DNS name)

Screenshot of PHPInfo page (showing EC2 Public DNS name in Browser)

Steps

Launch a new "free-tier" instance using Amazon Linux 2 image

Prepare the LAMP server

Connect to your instance via SSH.

• Make sure security group allows SSH

Run updates

sudo yum update -y

Install the lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 and php7.2 Amazon Linux Extras repositories

sudo amazon-linux-extras install -y lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 php7.2

Install the Apache web server, MariaDB, and PHP software packages

sudo yum install -y httpd mariadb-server

Start and enable the Apache web server

sudo systemctl start httpd sudo systemctl enable httpd

Add a security rule to your Security Group to allow inbound HTTP (port 80)

Test your web server (Use public DNS address)

Set file permissions for EC2 users

sudo usermod -a -G apache ec2-user

• Log out and log back in to refresh the group

Change the group ownership of /var/www and its contents to the apache group.

sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /var/www

To add group write permissions and to set the group ID on future subdirectories, change the directory permissions of /var/www and its subdirectories.

sudo chmod 2775 /var/www && find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;

To add group write permissions, recursively change the file permissions of /var/www and its subdirectories:

find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;

Test your LAMP server

Create a PHP file in the Apache document root

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

Navigate to the URL of the file

http://ec2-3-83-145-101.compute-1.amazonaws.com/phpinfo.php

Delete the phpinfo.php file

rm /var/www/html/phpinfo.php