In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series, I wrote about setting up a LAMP stack by hand using ssh and logging into the server and install and configuring it all.

In my opinion, Ansible is a better way to set this up. It uses a set of files locally to login to and setup the server in a repeatable way.

Once again I am going to use the Debian 10 AMI - ami-050949f5d3aede071 setup with a t2-micro instance on the free tier.

Please visit this repo at github.com/allotmentandy/aws for the Ansible files to set this up.

I based this on github.com/kdpuvvadi/ansible-lamp repo as it worked well and is nicely structured.

Important files to setup

• inventory.ini - set the ip address of the aws debian server
• vars/default.yml - set the passwords for the mysql root user, the name of the apache config and the port
• tasks/packages - the packages to install, php, mysql, apache and ufw
• README.md - notes on setting up the original ansible package.

To run this code use this command where the key is set in the command

  ansible-playbook main.yml --key-file /home/andy/.ssh/aws2021.pem  -e 'ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3'

visit the ip address to see the apache test page. /info.php to see the php test page. and login to the mysql server to test the database connection.

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