This is a Documented Project/Procedure on How to successfully Host a Web Application on an Apache Server while Running the Server on an EC2 instance. Services and Settings Used includes: •hashtag#Aws •Amazon VPC •Security Groups (Port 22ssh and port 80http) •Amazon Linux Machine as the preferred EC2 •Git Bash •Apache Server •Keypair •Css/Html files for the Web app.

1. Apache
Hosting a Web-Application on
Server using a Linux
EC2 instance on AWS
by Ayomide Ogunsanya (@TheCloudLord)

2. INTRO
In this Project, i’ll be Launching an EC2 instance on AWS - ssh
into the instance using Git bash on my local machine - Install
Apache on the EC2 instance and Host a Web app in Apache.
The procedures are documented as clear as possible.

3. 1.
Launch a Linux EC2 instance, on my case i used the Amazon
Linux EC2 free tier - Make sure you have your EC2 instance
inbound Security groups (2) set as (ssh port 22, source type set
to my IP) and for the second inbound rule, set as (http port 80,
source type set to Anywhere) before launching

4. 2.

5. 3.

6. Now, lets shh into our EC2 instance using our Local machine -
Click on Connect
4.

7. 5.
Select SSH Client

8. 6.
Locate your Private Key on your local computer - select it and right click
outside of it - from the drop down menu select Open Git Bash here to open Git
bash directly in the Private key path - Now paste command no 3 from your EC2
instance SSH Client into your Git Bash as shown

9. 7.
then go ahead copy and paste the ssh command from your SSH Client to your Git
bash and now we have successfully ssh into our EC2 instance

10. Now, Lets install APACHE
Server on our EC2
instance

11. 8.
for this, we would be running the following linux commands
sudo su
yum update -y
yum install -y httpd
sudo su to switch into superuser mode - yum update to update
our EC2 instance and - yum install to install our APACHE Server

12. 9.
Now our APACHE Server has been Succesfully installed on our EC2
Instance

13. 10.
Now, the Next Step is to cd into our html directory which is where
our Web App files would run from. This is done using the full path
command cd /var/www/html
Now lets download the Web app files into the html directory, this
is done by using the wget command.
I have my web app files uploaded already on my Github account
from my local computer so i would download from there. to do
this, simply go to your Github repository - click on code - go to
download zip - right click - click on copy link address

14. 11.
right click and
click Copy link
address

15. 12.
Now execute the command wget
https://github.com/TheCloudLord/Static-website-for-ec2-
use/archive/refs/heads/main.zip to download the web app files into
our apache server
Now use ls command to check if the downloaded file is present in
the html directory
Once we have our file present ‘main.zip’ the next thing is to unzip
the file.

16. 13.
this is done using the unzip command
now we have unzipped succefully

17. Next is to move the Web App files inside the unzipped folder into the html directory to
enable our apache server run the web app, itself this is done by executing the
command cp -r Static-website-for-ec2-use-main/* /var/www/html/ and the executing
the command cp -r inance-html/* /var/www/html/ to copy completely from the inance-
html folder to the html directory
14.
Now our web app files is succesfully in the html directory and ready to be accessed
from the internet

18. 15.
execute the command rm -rf inance-html main.zip Static-website-for-ec2-use-main to
delete duplicate files or leave if you want - Finally execute the following commands
systemctl enable httpd
systemctl start httpd to enable APACHE Server start on system boot up.
Now our Web app is succesfully hosted our web app on our Apache Server

19. 16.
Now lets access our Web Application through the internet - Go to your EC2
Instance Dashboard on AWS - Copy and Paste the Public IPv4 address on a new
tab on your Browser to access the Web App.

20. 17.
Our Web App is running perfectly well on our Apache Server.
Do make sure you Terminate your EC2 instance after this task to avoid
Incurred Bills.

21. Thanks For
Following
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