AWS Amazon Web Services Cloud computing and PHP

I my quest to learn more about cloud computing especially using PHP, I am spending the cold winter months developing skills. I am going to write blogs about investigating each of these

• EC2 Debian 10 LAMP server by hand
• EC2 Docker Container
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon Lightsail
• Using ansible and terraform to setup a lamp server
• Using the AWS CLI

Using EC2 Debian 10 LAMP stack server by hand.

Setting up an instance is pretty easy - i created a private key, downloaded it and connected the first time using

ssh -i privatekey.pem  admin@ec2-13-40-50-116.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

Note the user is admin, as that is the default for debian

Here is a link to the default usernames for different systems

aws default users for ssh connections to linux distros

To run apt-get you need to use sudo

So to install apache

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo a2enmod ssl
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# install firewall and setup

sudo apt install ufw
sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw allow http
sudo ufw allow https

# to get the https version running

sudo apt install certbot
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-apache

sudo a2ensite default-ssl

sudo systemctl reload apache2

# installing php 8.0 and 8.1

sudo apt-get install lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg
sudo echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install -y php8.0-{mysql,cli,common,snmp,ldap,curl,mbstring,zip,tidy,xml,opcache}
sudo apt install -y php8.1-{mysql,cli,common,snmp,ldap,curl,mbstring,zip,tidy,xml,opcache}

sudo update-alternatives --config php

sudo apt-get install php8.0-fpm libapache2-mod-php8.0
sudo apt-get install php8.1-fpm libapache2-mod-php8.1
sudo a2dismod php8.0
sudo a2enmod php8.1
sudo systemctl restart apache2

The default directory for the files is /var/www/html Setting up a simple test.php file with the contents

<?php

phpinfo();

Gives the php info test page.

Next, lets install a mysql database to store some data.

Please visit this repo at github.com/allotmentandy/aws for shell scripts and files to run this code.

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