Installing LAMP Stack on Ubuntu Instance

Deploying Play Framework in EC2 - part # 2

kamarul kawnayeen

PrefaceThis is the second part of deploying playframewok in EC2 tutorial series. In the previous part, I’ve showed how to setup a virtual server on AWS. I setup ubuntu 14.04 LTS there. In this part I’m going to complete setting up LAMP stack.

Considering LAMP, I will use :-➢ Apache as web server➢ MySQL as database➢ PHP as programming language

First, we are going to configure corresponding security group. The security group acts as a firewall allowing you to choose which protocols and ports are open to computers

over the internet.

Configuring Security Group

select your instance & check the security group associated with it

click “Security Groups” from left panel and select the one associated with your instance

Click on Inbound and then Click Edit

Add this 4 rules. The Custom TCP Rule (port 9000) will be needed for play application

Setting up Apache

Connect with your remote server using terminal & update your ubuntu

sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install apache using the following command :

sudo apt-get install apache2

Now, we have to enable .htaccess file. To do so we have to edit the “000-default.conf” file at “/etc/apache2/sites-available/” directory

So, move to the sites-available directory and execute the following command

sudo nano 000-default.conf

look for /var/www/html directory and make sure it contains AllowOverride All

save & exit the nano editor via CTRL-X, “y” and Enter

Enable the rewrite module in Apache :sudo a2enmod rewrite

Install PHP 5 sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

Restart Apachesudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Type the ip address of your instance & check whether apache is running

Allow ubuntu user to work with the /var/www/html directory:sudo adduser ubuntu www-datasudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/htmlsudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html

Now we are going to test php installation. Go to the /var/www/html directory and create a file name phptest.php

cd /var/www/htmlsudo vi phptest.php

hit i key to enter insert mode and just call the phpinfo() function

hit esc to exit insert mode and type :wq to save and quit vi editor

type ip address of your instance/html/phptest.phpat your browser to test php

Installing MySQL

trysudo apt-get install mysql-serversudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Installing PHPMyAdmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

select apache2 web server

select yes while asking for configuring database for phpmyadmin

Enter password of database’s administrative user and hit Ok

Enter password for phpmyadmin (optional)

Confirming the password

Now we have to link phpmyadmin at /var/www/html directorysudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html

check out phpmyadmin at your browser