How-to-install-and-configure-LAMP-in-Ubuntu-14.04-instance-in-Amazon-EC2

Introduction

In this tutorial we will install LAMP on Ubuntu-14.04 instance on Amazon EC2. To do that we had create an instance on amazon and generate the ssh key pair.

So I have generated the key pair and i will be loging in with ssh from my terminal

The default username for ubuntu instance is "ubuntu"

1. Open the terminal do the following :-

ssh -i root.pem ubuntu@10.10.10.10

2. First of all update your instance :-

sudo apt-get update -y

3. Now install Apache2 web service :-

sudo apt-get install apache2

Default document root is inside /var/www/html
Default configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-available/

4. Now install and configure Mysql server :-

sudo apt-get install mysql-server -y

Finish the installation by running the following script

sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

5. Install and configure PHP :-

sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt php-pear

You can also install other php module by searching

sudo apt-cache php5-

sudo apt-get install php5-modulename

6. Now let install phpmyadmin :-

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin -y

Before testing it from the browser check the port is opened or not in your amazon console. If it is not open then open up the port your require.

Select the instance you want to open the port :-