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    Create instance

Use AWS Cloud9 to create an EC2 instance

set to Ubuntu
once complete open IDE
create info.php and an index.php

Set up viewing the application from outside of the IDE browser

This also will set the view to an elastic IP
In AWS veiw EC2 > instances

click on instance and name it
note public IP and subnet

In tabs below instances

click link next to security goups
click tab for Inbound
click edit
Add Rule

type : Custom TCP Rule
Port Range : 8080
Source : Anywhere

Go to services and search VPC

once there click subnets
select the subnet from the note earlier
click on Network ACL tab
Look at inbound rules
if a rule doesn't already exsist where type is HTTP (8080)
create rule with

Type : Custom TCP Rule
Port : 8080
Source : 0.0.0.0/0
Allow/Deny : ALLOW

Allocating an Elastic IP

so IP does not change when restarting instance

visit Netsir & Security > Elastic IPs from the EC2 Dashboard
Click Allocate new address
IPv4 address pool : Amazon Pool
Close

Associate new Elastic IP


select Elastic IP
Actions > Associate Address
Resource Type : Instance
Instance : the instance
private IP : private IP of instance

Reboot instance from actions > instance state > reboot on instances page
You can now view the instance from http://[elastic IP]:8080
Set up LAMP

The instance should come with Apache, PHP, MYSQL already installed. But.. you never know..
Check if Apache installed

$ apache2 -v

Check if PHP installed

$ php -v

A few things to do to PHP

usually the server will look for index.html first if you want it to look for index.php first...
$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf

in file move index.php to front of list like below
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>

then restart apache
$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

we may need some modules such as curl for google reCaptcha
See list of modules
$ sudo apt-cache search php- | less
//if php-curl is listed skip if not look into installing for version of PHP installed

Check if MySQL installed

$ mysql --version

MySQL set up

run
$ sudo mysql_secure_installation


set new password for root user
confirm new password
For the rest of questions, just type y and hit ENTER. This will remove anonymous user, disallow root user login remotely and remove test database.

Change authentication method for root user

change authentication method from auth_socket to mysql_native_password this will help with phpmyadmin
$ sudo mysql
//run to check the current authentication method
$ SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;

If root is set to auth_socket under plugin
run this command to change the authentication to mysql_native_password
$ ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '[password]';
$ FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
// check again to make sure it worked
$ SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
$ exit
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