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Now that we can connect to the ec2 instance – we want to setup a basic website. I use ubuntu AMI – so, following instructions are for ubuntu. Similar instructions for other platforms can be ported as well.

Installing LAMP Server

# install Apache , PHP and MySql as a package
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
# we may want to enable some of the apache modules
# without rewrite = rewriting URLs will not work
sudo a2enmod rewrite
# headers and expires module will help in performance
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo a2enmod expires

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In order to connect with an ec2 instance there are three prime prerequisites:

• The key file (.pem extension) created while launching an EC2 instance in AWS.
• Port 22 of the instance is open while launching the instance.
• Know the public DNS of your EC2 instance.

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