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The document provides a step-by-step guide for hosting a personal portfolio website on an AWS EC2 instance. It covers the creation of an EC2 instance, connecting to it via SSH, installing the Apache web server, transferring local files using FileZilla, and editing the portfolio site. The instructions include specific commands and settings needed for successful deployment.

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AWS Server

The document provides a step-by-step guide for hosting a personal portfolio website on an AWS EC2 instance. It covers the creation of an EC2 instance, connecting to it via SSH, installing the Apache web server, transferring local files using FileZilla, and editing the portfolio site. The instructions include specific commands and settings needed for successful deployment.

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Name: Ankan Maity

Dept: ECE
Roll: 18700321104
Sec: B
Batch: 2021-25

Documentation about Host own portfolio in


AWS EC2 instance
Hosting our own website in AWS.
1. Create an EC2 Instance:
●​ Log in to your AWS Console.
●​ Check the region.
●​ Go to EC2 Dashboard → Launch Instance.

●​ Give a name to your instance.(My case test-1).


●​ Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI):
○​ Select Ubuntu (recommended) or Amazon Linux.
●​ Choose an Instance Type:
○​ For a basic website, t2.micro (Free Tier) is enough.

●​ create a new key pair (download it as .pem/.ppm):

●​ In Network setting allow SSH, HTTP, HTTPS to access over internet:


●​ Add Storage:
○​ Default 8GB is enough for a small website.

●​ Launch the instance and create a new key pair (download it as .pem/.ppm).
●​ Now the instance is created, come to the instance tab and select the instance and change the instance
state to start instance.

2. Connect the console:


Instance is started, now time to connect the console to access CLI(Command Line Interface).
Here are two ways to connect the console.
1.​ Using the console provided by AWS website.
●​ Select the instance, in above there is connect option, connect->EC2 instance connect and then
click connect.
●​ Now boom its connected:

2.​ Using system Console.

●​ Open your terminal (I am using Linux terminal)

●​ Run ` ssh -i “your .pem file path” “your instance username”@”your instance public
ip” `
Example: `ssh -i /home/ankan/Downloads/AWS/test-1.pem [email protected] `
3. Install apache2 web server:
●​ Go to Root directory:
○​ Run: sudo su
●​ Update System Packages:
○​ Run: sudo yum update -y1
●​ Install Apache (httpd):
○​ Run: sudo yum install -y httpd
●​ Start and Enable Apache:
○​ Run: sudo systemctl start httpd.service
○​ Run: sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
●​ Check the status Apache:
○​ Run: sudo systemctl status httpd.service
●​ Test the Web Server:
○​ Go to the “http://your -public-ip”
○​ EX: http://13.235.78.231

4. Transfer local file to EC2:


●​ Install filezilla in desktop:
○​ Run: sudo apt-get install filezilla

●​ Open filezilla and open Site Manager , then create new site, set:
○​ Protocol: SFTP
○​ Host: (your public Ip) Port: 22
○​ Logon Type: Keyfile
○​ User : ec2-user
○​ Keyfile :(your .pem file path)
○​ And then connect.
●​ Download a portfolio site from bootstrap made.
●​ In the local site: go the path where the file has and in the remote site go the path where you want to
transfer the file.
○​ My case
■​ Local site : /home/ankan/Downloads/EasyFolio/
■​ Remote site: /var/www/html
●​ Select file in local site section and drag to the remote site
4. Edit Portfolio site:
●​ Edit the temple using Vs code.

●​ Edit the temple using Vs code.

5. Upload My portfolio:
●​ Upload using FileZilla

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