Installation of Magento on AWS (Amazon

Web Services)

According to Magento customer and market share report, the popular Content
Management System (CMS), currently powers 842,618 websites. Wow, that’s a huge
number. If you own an ecommerce store, or you are thinking to setup an ecommerce
store, Magento should be your first choice CMS for setting up an ecommerce
platform.
To begin with, we will first host Magento on Amazon Web Service (AWS) platform.
You might ask why am I considering AWS to host my site when Google is also
available? Because AWS hosts the world’s number one ecommerce store Amazon.
Let’s begin with Magento AWS hosting.
You have to follow these steps to Install Magento on AWS:

 Setup a Server on Amazon

 Install pre-requisite tools on the server, needed to run Magento
 Setup Database
 Install and configure Magento on AWS
 Easier Way to Install Magento on AWS

Up and Running with AWS Magento Hosting

Setup a Server on Amazon

Amazon Developer Console
Go to Amazon and setup an account. Now, navigate to AWS Management console.
You will see the following screen:
Select EC2. Don’t worry if you can’t see it. Search it in Find Services and you will
get it. Click on it. Now you will see the following screen:

Click on Launch Instance.

Select a machine with default operating system (OS), such as Linux, Ubuntu, or
Windows etc.
You will see the following screen. Scroll down, and you will see:

Select the Ubuntu server. Most developers tend to use Linux operating system to carry
out their tasks, therefore I prefer Ubuntu. If you are a Windows user, and you want to
select a Windows operating system, you are more welcome to do so. The
configuration is almost identical.

According to the official Magento 2 system requirements you need at least 2G of

RAM. However, I consider and advise to have 4GB RAM. Just to be on safe side, if
you want to debug or execute a block of code, you probably won’t want to exhaust
your RAM . Therefore, you must:
Select Type t2 medium

Click on Configure Instance Details. Now you will see:

You can configure your machine (i.e. instance). Since, there is nothing much to do,
proceed ahead with add storage.

Now, the system will ask you to add storage. By default, the storage size is enough,
but if you want to increase, then just

Increase the size.

Once you complete the process, it time to click on Add Tags.
For now, we don’t need any tags, therefore, click on configure security group button.
This is important.

Now, you can add rules about which people from across the globe will access your
server. Do they have to follow a protocol to reach to a server? For now, I am making
my server accessible to all traffic. Later, we can put security rules. Navigate to Type
and select All traffic. In the source, click anywhere. It should look like this:
Click review and launch. Then you will have the opportunity to review your
configuration again. Click Launch. You will see the following prompt.

Here, instead of choosing an existing key pair, select a new key pair and give it a
name.

You might be wondering what is a key pair? In simple words, its a key which lets you
connect to your server machine securely. It consists of a public key that AWS stores,
and a private key file that you store. Together, they allow you to connect to your
instance securely. For Windows AMIs, you must use the private key file to obtain the
login password for your instance. For Linux AMIs, the private key file allows you to
login to your instance with active SSH.
Download the key pair and keep it secure, as without it, you won’t be able to access
your server. Now click on launch instance.
A new screen will open up.

Click View Instance

In status check, you can see that it’s initializing:

Ignore the old server. You might not see the name of your server. Now, navigate to
the empty space and you will notice a pencil write icon. Click on it and name your
server. You must wait for a while and then refresh the screen. Check your system
status:
Now, you must connect to your server. Before, you do that make sure you have git
installed, because we will use it to connect to our server. Now, select your new
server:

Click Connect.
Now that you know about how to connect to your new server, we will opt the easy
way. Remember the key pair you downloaded earlier? Navigate to that folder.
Assuming, you have git installed, right click in empty space and select git bash here
option. Now copy the line, I underline just below the example which starts with ssh -I
…….

And paste it in git bash:

Press Enter. You will get a question: Are you sure you want to connect? Enter yes.
Congrats, now you are on your server. But we must fulfill the requirement to make
Magento work. Therefore, it is time to set up a PHP environment. Next, we will run a
few commands on git to install the prerequisite tools.
Install Pre Requisite Tools on Server to Run Magento
You will have to execute the following code on the terminal to get the required tools
for Magento installation on your server.

ls -al
This will show all the directories on the server.

sudo su
This will direct you to the home/ubuntu directory. It means that you have logged in
as a root user.
apt-get update
This will update your server with the latest tools.

sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php mysql-server php-mysql php-

dom php-simplexmlphp-curl php-intl php-xsl php-mbstring php-zip php-
xml composer
This code will install Apache (a web server software), PHP (latest version, currently
its 7.2) along with necessary extra tools required for Magento, and MySQL server
which will serve as a database.
Press Y if asked do you want to continue? Once the installation is complete, you must
create a database.
Now, install PHP gd extension

apt-get install php7.2-gd (can vary with PHP version)

Install PHP mcrypt extension

apt-get install php7.2-mcrypt (can vary with PHP version)

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Now Restart the Apache:

systemctl restart apache2

And then navigate

cd /etc/apache2/
sudo nano apache2.
Press ctrl+w and search indexes

Replace ‘None’ word with ‘all’ like this:

Press ctrl+x, press y and hit Enter.

Again Restart the Apache services:
systemctl restart apache2.service
Now go to the public root directory and clone Magento 2 from Github:

cd /var/www/html
git clone https://github.com/Magento/Magento2.git
cd Magento2
 Now just install composer:

composer install
If you come across an error like this:

To resolve it, run these commands:

apt-get install php7.2-bcmath

composer install
sudo service Apache2 restart

Otherwise, php extension will be missing.

Setup Database
Login MySQL by this command

mysql -u root -p
It will ask you a password. By default it’s none, so just press Enter. Now you are in
MySQL terminal.
 show databases: shows you current table.
 create database Magento: it will create a database for Magento
 exit: it will exit from MySQL terminal
Install and Configure Magento on AWS
Navigate to your public IP address:

Copy and paste it your browser like xx.xxx.xxx.xx/Magento2/setup

You will see the following screen. It means you are all set to setup your Magento on
AWS.

Now start intsalling Magento:

The above message indicated that you have successfully installed Magento on AWS.

Easier Way to Install Magento on AWS

The answer is:

Managed Magento Hosting

For now, you have spent ample time just to set up your Magento server. With every
update rolling out for PHP or MySQL, there is no denying the fact that sometime you
may face error(s) while setting up the environment. In the future, if Magento rolls out
any new update, you will have to update the server. You might think huh, that’s easy!
Well, don’t deny the fact that there will be risk involved with your Magento
application behaving abnormally, or there might be data loss.

For now, we have taken a simple, easy path to set up Magento on AWS server. Right..
But the journey doesn’t end here. There was no talk to secure your server or your site.
There was no steps or methods defined to make your site load faster or optimize the
performance of your website. Is it my fault that I did not discussed that? Nope, I can
but then it wont look like an article but rather would look a book chapter.

Therefore, instead of going through all the hassle of setting up the server and
managing it when it comes to security, performance and reliability, you should
choose Cloudways Managed Magento Hosting.
WHY? Here are the reasons.
A Choice From Multiple Renowned Infrastructure Providers
Cloudways provides multiple cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, and DO.
Moreover, it enables you to deploy your Magento store in more than 40 locations
across the globe.

ThunderStack- Performance Enhancer

The platform has the power of ThunderStack, that makes your Magento store
lightening fast. The technology stack brings together the best of Apache and Nginx,
along with Varnish, Memcached, and optional Redis. It ensures that your Magento
website remains up and running in terms of performance, speed, and user experience.

Multiple One-Click Operations

With Cloudways hosting, you can manage your cloud servers and applications
conveniently. Thanks to the easy-to-use, feature-rich console. You can carry out
multiple tasks with just a few clicks, making the deployment process considerably
quick and easy. You can launch a server, point a URL, install an SSL certificate, or
clone your store with this one-click feature.

Auto-Scalability
Another amazing feature of Cloud ways is auto-scalability – the ability to scale the
resources whenever there is a need. It is easy to meet the hardware requirements of the
ecommerce store with this platform, as you simply need to select the server size and
deploy it.

Managed Server Security

Being a managed hosting platform, Cloud ways provides unmatched security for your
Magento store. It follows a multi-layered security approach, with fully- integrated
Let’s Encrypt certificate authority and regular security updates.

Cost-Effective
Another feature that works in favour of this platform is its cost-effectiveness. Not only
has a reasonable price tag, but also follows the pay-as-you-go model. The users only
have to pay for the resources they consume.
Seamless Support
Seamless, round the clock, tech support comes as the additional advantage of having
your Magento store run on Cloudways. Technical support is available 24×7 with Live
Chat and Ticketing system.

Launching a Cloud Server with a Single Click

First, create an account on Cloud ways. Once you have the account setup, launch your server on the
platform.
The best part about using Cloud ways is that you get to choose from five different
cloud hosting providers including AWS, Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Linode, and
Vultr.

Launch Your Magento Server

Click Add server for AWS Magento.
You can easily create a server within seconds with the point and click dashboard.

Next, select the location of the server that you want to launch. That’s it.