Create Amazon EC2 Instance
1. Login to AWS Management Console
2. Select Amazon EC2
3. Click “Instances” from the left menu
4. Click “launch Instance”
Create Elastic IPs
1. Login to AWS Management Console
2. Click “Elastic IPs” from the left menu
3. Click “Allocate New Address”
4. Select “EC2” and click “Yes, Allocate”
Assign Elastic IP to an Instance
1. Right click an IP and select “Associate”
2. Select an instance and click “Yes, Associate”
First Time Connect
1. Download PuttyGen
2. Click “Load” and select the .pem file
3. Click “Save private key”
4. Open putty
5. From the left menu, select Connection > SSH > Auth
6. Click “Browse” and select the ppk file created in step 3
7. Connect to your instance with the username “ec2-user”
Change Password
sudo passwd root
Create user
adduser myhelper passwd myhelper
Add user to sudoers
chmod 777 /etc/sudoers vim /etc/sudoers myhelper ALL=(ALL) ALL chmod 440 /etc/sudoers
Configure sshd
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config PasswordAuthentication yes AllowUsers myhelper /etc/init.d/sshd restart
Change timezone
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Hongkong /etc/localtime (or use tzselect)
Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, FTP
yum install httpd mod_ssl mysql-server php php-mysql php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-devel php-xml vsftpd chkconfig httpd on chkconfig mysqld on chkconfig vsftpd on
Create virtual host directory
mkdir -p /var/www/vhosts/myhelper.com/subdomains mkdir -p /var/www/vhosts/myhelper.com/htdocs mkdir -p /var/www/vhosts/myhelper.com/logs chown -R myhelper.myhelper /var/www/vhosts/myhelper.com
Configure Apache
vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
Include /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 30
MinSpareServers 30
MaxSpareServers 45
ServerLimit 4000
MaxClients 4000
MaxRequestsPerChild 4000
</IfModule>
vim /etc/php.ini
upload_max_filesize = 5M
post_max_size = 8M
memory_limit = 256M
mkdir /etc/httpd/conf/extra
vim /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/my-helper/htdocs"
ServerName my-helper.com
ServerAlias www.my-helper.com
<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/my-helper/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog "/var/www/vhosts/my-helper/logs/error.log"
#CustomLog "/var/www/vhosts/my-helper/logs/access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
Configure Vsftpd
vim /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
userlist_deny=NO
user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/userconfig
chroot_local_user=YES
allow_writeable_chroot=YES
port_enable=YES
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=21024
pasv_max_port=21048
pasv_address={your public ip address}
vim /etc/vsftpd/user_list myhelper mkdir /etc/vsftpd/userconfig vim /etc/vsftpd/userconfig/myhelper local_root=/var/www/vhosts/my-helper /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
Update sysctl.conf
vim /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=0 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=30 net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=8192 sysctl -p
Update Security Group
1. Login to AWS Management Console
2. Click “Security Groups” from the left menu
3. Select your security group
4. Add TCP port 20-21, 80, 21024-21048