Lab 3:To Configure Webserver on Amazon Linux instance with Elastic IP

                        Lab 3:To Configure Webserver  on Amazon Linux instance with Elastic IP

Objective:To Configure Webserver and to verify using Elastic IP

Topology:

Pre-Requistes :

User should have AWS account ,or IAM user with EC2 full access

Task:

 

Lanuch linux instance in AWS

Switch to root user

Configure Apache Webserver

Enable HTTP port in Security Group

Open the browser and provide public ip or DNS_name of webserver

Assign an Elastic ip

Releasing an Elastic ip

1)Launch Amazon linux instance and login to your instance

Refer to lab[How to configure amazon linux instance]

2)Connect to linux instance from windows using Mobaxterm

open Mobaxterm

Click on on start local terminal

Go to Full screen mode

Navigate to the folder where key*.pem file is stored

Eg:cd e:/awskeys

Login to linux instance by typing the following command

ssh -i"keyorg123.pem"ec2-user@ec2-54-186-150-140-us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

Switch to root user

Type "sudo su"

Configure Apache Webserver run following commands as shown in screen

To use vi editor

Go to insert mode by typing "i" and add following code in index.html file

Note:[esc+shift+colon---> :wql (to save and quit in vi editor)]

3) Create an inbound Rule to Allow http traffic on port 80.

open the AWS console

on the EC2 Dashboard panel

Select the linux instance

Go the right end

select Security Groups

Click on Launch-wizard-1

Click on inbound button

Click on Edit button

Click on Add Rule button

Add Http Rule

Under Type column select HTTP

Under Source column select Anywhere

click save Button

4)Open Browser and provide Webserver instance DNS_name or public IP

Verify

Website is running