Hosting static website on Amazon Web service Free tier – My experience

Hosting static website on Amazon Web service – My Experience

Step- 1

• First create account on amazon web service with valid credit card.
• Select Free tier EC2 AWS service
• Create instance –  Make sure select t2.nano linux free tier instance . Examble- Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03.0 (HVM), SSD Volume Type – ami-cfe4b2b0
• Create security group with allow http,https and ssh
• Create key pairs and download  – This key pair used to connect terminal ssh and SCP.
• After complete the instance installation process status bar become green.

Step – 2

• Download Putty and puttygen software from https://www.putty.org/
• Use puttygen software used make private key file.pem to file.ppk
• To connect aws  linux instance on putty tool- Open putty tool – connection type ssh – port 22 – host name ec2-user@public_dns_name –  category connection , ssh and Auth – browse key pair .ppk file – then connect
• # sudo su –
• #yum install httpd  ( Webserver installation)
• #service httpd start ( starting service)
• #chkconfig httpd on
• service httpd status
• #cd /var/www/html/
• #wget https://s3-ap-……..file.zip ( download static website file from cloud)
• #unzip file.zip
• #mv file.zip/*. ( move file to root directory)
• Finished file transfer
• Adding Permission for EC2-user to edit and delete Coding below
• #[ec2-user ~]$ sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /var/www
• [ec2-user ~]$ sudo chmod 2775 /var/www
  [ec2-user ~]$ find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;

Step – 3

• Open AWS EC2 dashboard – select current running instance – note on Public ipv4 address
• Put this ip address on Domain provider and map with domain name.