ec2-web

EC2 Web Server Example

This AWS CloudFormation example deploys a Linux server into a public subnet in the custom (non-default) VPC created with the vpc example. It uses the EC2 UserData section to add bash shell instance initialization commands to install Apache and PHP.

Deploying

From the command line run ./build.sh dev oh ec2 to deploy the ec2 dev stack into us-east-2. When the deployment script successfully completes, run aws cloudformation list-exports to list all stack exports. You output should be similar to, but not exactly as the following:

Ping the Instance

Search the list of exports for dev-ec2-stack-LinuxServerOnePublicDNS or dev-ec2-stack-LinuxServerOnePublicIP and copy the Value. In your terminal enter: ping ec2-3-137-222-192.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com or ping 3.137.222.192 You should see responses from the server as shown below:

Test Web Server

Open a browser and either enter the full server DNS or IP address. You should see the Apache Test page.

PHP Info Page

Add /phpinfo.php to the web page URL to access the PHP Info Page: