Host Personal Web on AWS EC2

Launch EC2 instance

1. Choose Ubuntu Server
2. Configure security group
   1. ssh: 22
   2. http: 80
   3. https: 443
3. Create Keypair Personal-Web-KeyPair.pem and Download to local

SSH into the instance and install Apache2

1. Terminal (local): ssh -i "Personal-Web-KeyPair.pem" [email protected]
2. Package update: sudo apt-get update
3. Install apache2: sudo apt-get install apache2
4. Check status: sudo systemctl status apache2
5. Restart apache2: sudo systemctl restart apache2
6. Browser check link: ec2-Public-IPv4-DNS.compute-1.amazonaws.com showing apache2 website

Connect FileZilla to EC2 instance to transfer/upload files

Virtual Hosts in Apache2

1. Register a domain name guowenbin.com. (I used Namecheap.com personally)
2. cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/, modify 000-default.conf

   1. <VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName: guowenbin.com
ServerAlias www.guowenbin.com

   2. <VirtualHost *:443>
      ServerName: guowenbin.com
ServerAlias www.guowenbin.com ServerAdmin: emailAddress
SSLCertificateFile ~/personalWeb.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile ~/server.key
SSLCertificateChainFile ~/personalWeb.ca-bundle

   3. Log directory error: No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/apache2/$/home/ubuntu/log/

      mkdir /var/log/apache2
chmod 750 /var/log/apache2
chown root:adm /var/log/apache2
      solution from plesk

3. cd /var/www/html/, update index.html

Add SSL (https)

1. Purchase PositiveSSL and issue to the primary domain

2. openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout server.key -out server.csr to get key and CSR code
   CSR code start with -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

3. SSL certificate: a) active ssl, b) enter CSR code, primary domain, c) DCV method: add CNAME record

4. Receive an email contains two files: personalWeb.ca-bundle and personalWeb.crt

5. Setup Advanced DNS

   Type	Host	Value	TTL
   A Record	@	IPv4 address	5 min
   CNAME Record	www	ec2-Public-IPv4-DNS.compute-1.amazonaws.com	5 min
   CNAME Record	www	guowenbin.com	5 min
   CNAME Record	Host	from ssl check namecheap tutorial	Automatic
   CNAME Record	Host.www	target from ssl check namecheap tutorial	Automatic
   URL Redirect Record	@	https://guowenbin.com	DO NOT forget this Redirect