Lamp-Stack-Implementation

This is a project which implement the use of Web Stack (LAMP STACK) In AWS

What is a Technology stack?

A technology stack is a set of frameworks and tools used to develop a software product. This set of frameworks and tools are very specifically chosen to work together in creating a well-functioning software. They are acronymns for individual technologies used together for a specific technology product. some examples are…

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP or Python, or Perl) LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP or Python, or Perl) MERN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS) MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS

Create a EC2 Instance

• Select region (the cl and launch a new EC2 instance of t2.micro family with Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (HVM)

• Create a pair Key as the EC2 is created

• Move into the folder where the pair key is downloaded and run the following command to connect to the instance

          sudo chmod 0400 <private-key-name>.pem
      
          ssh -i <private-key-name>.pem ubuntu@<Public-IP-address>
  

Install APACHE and Update the Firewall

• Firat is to update a list of packages in package manager, the following command is used

                 sudo apt update
  

• Then we run apache2 package installation using the following command

                 sudo apt install apache2
  

• To verify that apache2 is running as a Service in our OS, use following command

                sudo systemctl status apache2
  

• we can try to check how we can access it locally in our Ubuntu shell, using the following command

                 curl http://localhost:80
    
                               or
                
                  curl http://127.0.0.1:80
  

• The image below will be display with the ip address

Installing MYSQL

• USe the the comman line to install the server

                 sudo apt install mysql-server
  

• We can the server using the following command line

                 sudo mysql_secure_installation
  

• You can sudo in the the server using the command

                        sudo mysql
  

• This will be display which shows that it is successful

• We can exit the server using the following command

                               exit
  

Installing PHP

• We use the following command to install 3 packages at once

                        sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
  

• After the installation, we can run the check the php version with the following command

                                             php -v
  

Creating Virtual Host Using APACHE

• Create the directory for projectlamp using ‘mkdir’ using the command

                               sudo mkdir /var/www/projectlamp
  

• Assign ownership of the directory with current system user using the command

                              sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/projectlamp
  

• Create and open a new configuration file in Apache’s usinng the command line

                              sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/projectlamp.conf
  

• paste the command below in the vim file and save

                                    <VirtualHost *:80>
                                    ServerName projectlamp
                                    ServerAlias www.projectlamp 
                                    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
                                    DocumentRoot /var/www/projectlamp
                                    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
                                    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
                                    </VirtualHost>
  

• You can list us the command line below tp list what is in the file

                               sudo ls /etc/apache2/sites-available
  

• Enable new virtual host using the command

                                      sudo a2ensite projectlamp
  

• You can disable Apache default website using the command

                                      sudo a2dissite 000-default
  

• Check for syntax error in the configuration file with the command

                                      sudo apache2ctl configtest
  

• Reload Apache for the changes to take effect

                                      sudo systemctl reload apache2
  

• Create an index.html file in that location to test that the virtual host works as expected using the 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
  

• The website URL can be access using thr IP address

                                      http://<Public-IP-Address>:80
  

Enable PHP on the website

• Edit the conf file with the command

                               sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
  

• Paste in the command

                         <IfModule mod_dir.c>
                         #Change this:
                         #DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm
                         #To this:
                         DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
                         </IfModule>
  

• Reload Apache

                               sudo systemctl reload apache2
  

• Create index.php file

                               vim /var/www/projectlamp/index.php
  

• Add the following text, which is valid PHP code, inside the file:

                                           <?php
                                          phpinfo();
  

• Save and close the file, refresh the page and you will see a page similar to this:

• Its best to remove the file create, you can do that using the following command

                               sudo rm /var/www/projectlamp/index.php