NOTE: I'll assume you have a working site, see this post for the code I'll be uploading. So, let get started.
STEP 0:
Signup for an Amazon Web Services account. Setup your payment, yadda yadda.
STEP 1:
Click on "Sign into AWS Management Console"
This should take you to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home
STEP 2:
Click on the big "Launch Instance" button. And choose the LAMP Web Starter AMI.
STEP 3:
Choose 1 instance, no preference on availabiliy zone, and "Small" type.
Click "Continue"
On the "Advanced Instance Options" use the defaults and click "Continue"
STEP 4: Create your Key Pair
Choose the radio button to "create a new Key Pair"
Enter a name "EC2LampTurotial" or something that is usefull for you.
click "Create and Download" and save the .pem file somewhere you can find later.
STEP5: Create a Secutiry Group
Give it a name you can remember "LAMP Secure" or something like that. The default ports that are open should be all you need for accessing your LAMP server.
Click "Continue"
STEP6: Review settings and launch
If everything looks OK, then launch.
Close the Wizard window, and while it's launching let's get ready to connect
STEP7: Gennerate Public Key
On windows, I use Putty. From that link, you will need "PuTTYgen" and "PuTTY".
Launch PuTTYgen. Load Private Key File (change file filter to "all Files") locate the .pem file you downloaded previously and open it.
Now save your private key somewhere you can find it.
Close PuttyGen
STEP8: Putty
Launch Putty
In the Category section, under Connection, under SSH select Auth. Load you ppk file you just saved. DON'T LAUNCH JUST YET.
Go back to you AWS management console. Select the instance you just launched from the instances section. In the details, copy the full name of the Public DNS Name. It should look something like ec2-174-129-141-110.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
Go back to putty, and at the top of Category, select Session. Paste that host name into the Host Name box.
[port = 22, type = ssh]
Click Open.
Accept the PuTTY Security Alert.
login as: root
hit return. And you should be in.
So. Now you are logged in. Yay!
Step 9
Make a site. (See above)
NOTE: all site files are by default in
/home/webuser/helloworld/htdocs/
If you are knowledgeable in apache and linux, go ahead and customize that. But there is not pressing need to change it.
Step 9b
Make a db
Remember, this is LAMP-land. And you are root. So go ahead and from your SSH window
# mysql -u root -p
when prompted for a password just hit return. Good to go
mysql> create database friendface;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> connect friendface;
Connection id: 3
Current database: friendface
Now, let's load some data. Hop of mysql
mysql> exit;
grab a database definiton. You are free to use mine:
# wget http://seis752.s3.amazonaws.com/mysql.txt
once that finishes
# mysql friendface -u root -p <mysql.txt
now hop back into mysql and check it out.
mysql> connect friendface;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Connection id: 8
Current database: friendface
mysql> show tables;
+----------------------+
| Tables_in_friendface |
+----------------------+
| something |
| users |
| zipcodes |
+----------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select count(*) from users;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 1000 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select count(*) from zipcodes;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 3790 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>
And, viola! Now, open a browser, punch your DNS name into the address bar. And you should be good to go!
Lloyd
Video of me doing above things (in two parts):
Part 1:
Part 2:
