Install and Configure PHP/Apache on Amazon EC 2 with Ubuntu (With SFTP)

Hello,

Recently for one of my project we moved our web application to Amazon EC 2. So we had to configure Aapche and setup SFTP there. I faced some difficulties in setting this up so here in blog I am going to explain you the process so it will help you.

First of all login to SSH on your Amazon EC 2 instance. For that first you have to download public key from your amazon EC 2 instance.  You can use public IP of your EC 2 instance to login to SSH.

Open your terminal and type following command.

ssh -i "YourKey.pem" ubuntu@your_ip_address

once you are logged in first of we have to install apache. For that run following command.

First we will install apache with PHP 7 and configure it.

sudo apt-get install apache2 php7.0 libapache2-mod-php7.0

Now verify it

a2query -m php7.0

Load PHP module.

sudo a2enmod php7.0

Restart apache.

sudo service apache2 restart

New version of ubuntu comes with PHP 7 but to access it you have to install php command lines. Run following command.

sudo apt-get install php7.0-cli

Now test it with

php -v

This will install apache, php with single command. Once installation is done type public ip in browser and it should show apache startup page. If you see this page that means apache installed. Now lets test PHP.

Go to your apache root directory with following command

cd /var/www/html

There will be one index.html file. We have to remove this and create new file for testing.

sudo rm index.html

sudo vim index.php

This will open vim editor, press i and now you can type in file. Let's create simple php file

<?php

     echo "Hello AWS";

?>

press esc and : and type wq this will save file. Now again type public IP in browser and it should show Hello AWS on browser.

Now let's create new SFTP user. But for that first we have to allow password authentication for SSH. Type following command.

cd /etc/ssh

sudo vim sshd_config

Find allowPasswordAuthetnciation. It will be set as no, make it yes and save the file and restart SSH service.

sudo service ssh restart

Now we can add user with password.

sudo adduser --home /var/www/html username

It will ask for password. Now user is created with same group name. Now we have to make this user, owner of /var/www/html so we can edit files via FileZilla. Now lets fist change ownership of folders and files.

sudo chown -R root:username /var/www/html

sudo find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

sudo find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

sudo find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

That's it now you can use this username and password with SFTP in FileZilla. Hope this helps you.