Lamp-Stack-Implementation

Project 3

AWS Account & EC2 Instance

Created an AWS Account and spinned an EC2 instance named For Instance

Private Key

Created and downloaded a private key named 1stkey

The .pem file was saved in the "Downloads" folder as shown below

From Terminal, working directory was changed to the "Downloads" folder

From Terminal, permission was changed for the private key.

Connecting to the EC2 Instance

Connected to the EC2 instance by running the command ssh -i <private-key-name>.pem ubuntu@<Public-IP-address>

Installing Apache & Firewall

Updated a list of packages in package manager

Updated these packages with the command sudo apt update with the sudo giving admin privelages.

After which the Apache package was installed using the sudo apt install apache2 command

Verifying Apache

Verified that Apache was running as a service in the os with the command sudo systemctl status apache2

Editing Inbound Rule

Edited inbound rule such that connection through port 80 is allowed and from any ip address.

Accessing Server

Accessed server locally on Ubuntu shell using the curl command as shown below

Tested the Apache HTTP Server with a web browser. This done by using the public ip in the address bar.

Installing MySQL

Used apt to install this software using the command sudo apt install mysql-server

The sudo command gives admin previlages and when prompted, installation was confirmed by typing y and then pressing enter.

After installation, logged into the Mysql Console with the command sudo mysql

Password was set for root user using the command ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'PassWord.1';

When done, tested to login into the MySQL console by using the command sudo mysql -p

The -p flag prompts for password after the root user password has been chnaged.

The "mysql> exit" command was used to exit the MySQL console.

Istalling PHP

In order to proccess codes to display dynamic content to the end users, PHP is the package to install.

In addition to PHP, we install other features like, php-mysql and libapache2-mod-php

These 3 packages were insatalled at once with the command sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql

Afterwhich the version of PHP was confirmed using the command php -v and the verision is 8.1.2

Changing the order of files in the default directory index such that index.php file will take precedent over index.html

This was done using the command sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

This order was edited using the insert mode in the vim editor.

pressing "i" on the keyboard takes us to the insert mode & "esc" to exit it

Changes were written and vim was exited with the command :wq!

After saving and closing the file, Apache was restarted for changes to take effect

Restart was done with the command sudo systemctl reload apache2

Next, we will creating a PHP script to test that PHP is installed correctly and configured on the server.

The file name is "index.php" and the directory for this file was also created with the mkdir command.

Inside the vim editor, the following valid PHP code was added to the newly openned blank "index.php" file

Changes were written and vim was exited with the command ":wq!"

Removing the Created PHP file

After confirming all relevant information via the PHP file, the newly created PHP file was further removed

as it contains sensitive information about the PHP environment and the Ubuntu Server.

That was done with the command sudo rm /var/www/projectlamp/index.php

Creating a virtual host for the website using Apache

We will be doing this using the earlier created directory

Then we will assign ownership of the environment with the USER environment variable using the command sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/projectlamp

Creating a configuration file

Created and edited a new configuration with the vi editor in Apache's site-available directory using the code sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/projectlamp.conf:

Changes were written and vim was exited with the command ":wq!"

The ls command was used list and confirm that the new files are available in the site-available directory

The a2ensite command was then used to enable the virtual host using the command sudo a2ensite projectlamp

The default website that comes with Apache was disabled using the code sudo a2dissite 000-default

The configuration file was confirmed to not contain any syntax error using the following command sudo apache2ctl configtest

Apache was relaoded so that changes can take effect, this was don using the command sudo systemctl reload apache2

To confirm that the virtual host is working as expected, an index.html file was created in the same directory

Using the echo command to display the text "Hello LAMP from hostname" using the following command

sudo echo 'Hello LAMP from hostname' $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname) 'with public IP' $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4) > /var/www/projectlamp/index.html

This was finally confirmed on the web browser using the format http://<Public-IP-Address>:80 (testing usinsg the public ip address)

Also with the format http://<Public-DNS-Name>:80 (testing using the public DNS)

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