STEP BY STEP PROCEDURE TO ESTABLISH

CLOUD SERVICE
1.

Creating an amazon account and launch an instance

Step1:
1. Create an amazon ec2 user account
https://aws.amazon.com/
2. Go to Amazon management console
3. Select EC2 under Compute section
Step 2:

2.

1. Now hit the Launch Instance button

2. Choose Amazon Linux 64 bit(Free Tier Eligible)
3. Create a key pair-these will be credentials youll use
to SSH into the box.
4. Security Group: which will be used to specify the
firewall used for your instance. Feel free to use the
default Group for now. Continue to the Review phase
and launch it!
For windows users:

Download Putty to connect to your instance using SSH

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download
.html
A Windows installer for everything except PuTTYtel
Installe putty-0.63r:
installer.exe

(or by
FTP)

(RSA
sig)

(DSA
sig)

Follow
3.

For Linux users:

On terminal run:
ssh -i [FILE NAME].pem ec2-user@ec2-[IP ADDRESS].compute-1.amazonaws.com

4.

Configure your Linux instance as server

Login as: ec2-user (for linux users)
PHP:
Run sudo yum update
First, the basics for PHP:
sudo yum install php-mysql php php-xml phpmcrypt php-mbstring php-cli mysql httpd
Press y for each of the prompts that shows up. Note that
youre logged in as ec2-user, so you need to sudo all of these
commands
You should now be able to create and run a PHP test file. Next,
lets get MySQL up and running
MYSQL SERVER:
First, install and begin running the server
sudo yum install mysql-server
sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start

Next, set the root password. Ive found this password

generator to be just handy.
Make it WEB Accessible:
Run following command on terminal
sudo chown ec2-user /var/www/html

Now go to EC2 console

Network & Security
Security Groups -> <select your Group name> ->
Inbound -> AddRule->Type->HTTP, PORT 80
Go to Security Groups-> Elastic IP->Allocate New
Address->Associate Address->chose your instance and
click Associate button