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+====== Creating an Amazon AWS EC2 Instance ======
+<color darkorange>May 2017</color>
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+===== Introduction =====
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+This guide assumes that you have created an Amazon account to be able to access the Amazon Web Services (AWS) pages, and that you have successfully logged in.
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 Click <color #ff7f27>Add Rule</color> and select <color #ff7f27>HTTP</color> as the type. <color #ff7f27>0.0.0.0/0, ::/0</color> means accept traffile from any IP Address. For the SSH I would limit that to your own IP (say your work or home IP).
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+Now you can select <color #ff7f27>Review and Launch</color>.
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+You will be shown a review screen of your selected settings.
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+If you are happy, select Saunch in the bottom right hand corner of the page.
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+You will be presented with a pop up that is asking about <color #ff7f27>Key Pairs</color>. When using SSH, <color #ff7f27>key pairs</color> are used rather than a simple username and password as <color #ff7f27>key pairs</color> are much more secure.
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+Where you see <color #ff7f27>Choose an existing key pair</color>, you need to change this to <color #ff7f27>Create a new key pair</color>.
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+Select a new for the new key pair, and click the <color #ff7f27>Download Key Pair</color> button.
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+You will see the <color #ff7f27>.pem</color> file download (this is browser specific).
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+Click the <color #ff7f27>Launch Instances</color> button.
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+The next page confirms that your instance is launching.
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+Click the <color #ff7f27>View Instances</color> button.
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+On this page we can see the information about our instance. The part we will need initially is the IP Address.
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+==== Connecting to the EC2 Instance ====
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+To connect to the EC2 instance you will need your <color #ff7f27>IP Address</color> (obtained from the EC2 Status Page) and you will need the .pem <color #ff7f27>key pair</color> file you downloaded.
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+If you have neither of these, please read the entire guide.
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+To be able to connect you will need a suitable SSH program, of which there are many. The most popular is probably Putty, however to use putty you need to use Puttygen to convert the .pem key first. So I am using another free application called <color #ff7f27>MobaXterm</color> which you can download from [[http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/|HERE:]]
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+Once installed, run MobaXterm.
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+{{ :ssh_001.png?600 |}}
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+At the top of the page, select <color #ff7f27>Session</color>.
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+Then select <color #ff7f27>SSH</color>.
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+The SSH Page will open and we have to enter the following information.
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+**Remote Host:** This is the IP Address of your EC2 Instance.
+**Advanced Settings:** Click this tab, select<color #ff7f27> Use Private Key</color> and navigate to where you saved your <color #ff7f27>key pair</color>.
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+Click <color #ff7f27>OK</color>.
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+MobaXterm will now connect to your EC2 instance, using your key pair to authenticate.
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+You will have to enter a password. The default password is <color #ff7f27>ec2-user</color> (case sensitive)
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+Once you enter the password you should be at the console.
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+{{ :ssh_005.png?600 |}}
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+You can now enter standard Linux commands, that's it, you are now connected to your EC2 instance.
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+----
+==== Install the Web Server ====
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+As this example is a simple web server, lets install a web server and give it a little test.
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+First thing to do is to navigate to the IP Address of you EC2 instance, to ensure there is nothing already running.
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+{{ :websvr_001.png?850 |}}
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+You should see that there is nothing on this IP Address.
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+So we can install a web server. Open MobaXterm and from the command line enter:
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+    sudo yum install httpd -y
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+This will install Apache web server, and configure the basic system files required for it to run.
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+Once installed, you will have to start the Apache service. You can do this with:
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+    sudo service httpd start
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+You should see a confirmation that looks like: Starting httpd:  [  <color #22b14c>OK</color>  ]
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+Now you can retest your connection from a web browser.
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+{{ :websvr_002.png?850 |}}
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+You should see an Apache test web page, this means your server is running and you can start to build and upload your test website.
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