{"id":3573,"date":"2023-02-06T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:38:13","slug":"how-to-host-a-website-on-an-ec2-instance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/?p=3573","title":{"rendered":"How to Host a Website on an EC2 Instance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this lab, you will host your first website on an EC2 instance. You will be using all the notions from previous labs to complete this lab successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prerequisite: Having a valid AWS Account (Follow the step in this link to create an AWS Account) How to Sign Up for a new Amazon Web Services Account<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open the page: https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/account\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a security group to allow only port 80 and 22 to your EC2 instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type VPC in the search box<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Select Security groups under Security menu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Click on Create Security Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enter the Security group name<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add the rule for SSH and HTTP in the inbound rules \/ Click Create security group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSH allowed only from my IP address and HTTP from anywhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Launch our EC2 instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type EC2 in the search box<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Click on Launch instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Enter your instance name \/ Select Amazon Machine Image \/ Instance type \/ Key pair \/ Security group and storage \/ review and click on Launch instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Confirm that the instance is up and running <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note the public IPv4 address, you will need it for the next task<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Connect to your EC2 instance with SSH client PuTTY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ec2-user@X.X.X.X(your IP v4 address)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Enter the IP and Key pair in PuTTY client \/ Click Open<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Click on Yes to add the key to PuTTY’s cache and trust the host<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Confirm you are connected to the EC2 instance with SSH<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Install all the software needed by our website<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Run the commands bellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sudo su\nyum update -y\nyum install -y httpd\ncd \/var\/www\/html\nwget https:\/\/github.com\/marcelin-ndjila\/webtemplate\/archive\/refs\/heads\/main.zip\nunzip main.zip\ncp -r webtemplate-main\/* \/var\/www\/html\nrm -rf webtemplate-main main.zip\nsystemctl enable httpd\nsystemctl start httpd\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Confirm your have access to the new website by entering the public IP address of your EC2 instance in a browser<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Clean up your lab and terminate your EC2 instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Type and select EC2 in the search bar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Select Instances in the menu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Select the instance and click on terminate instance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Click on Terminate<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Confirm the instance is terminated<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Credit: Azeez<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this lab, you will host your first website on an EC2 instance. You will be using all the notions from previous labs to complete this lab successfully. Prerequisite: Having a valid AWS Account (Follow the step in this link … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,118,123,26],"tags":[119,120,130,131],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon-web-services","category-aws","category-aws-basics","category-web","tag-aws","tag-aws-account","tag-ec2","tag-website"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hosting1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceedthecloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}