Build A AWS Server

I start my own server on AWS

AWS now has a whole year free trail for a personal server. This is the reason that I choose AWS as my personal server provider. (T-T) sooo poor.

Anyway, AWS provide quite clear and simple way to create a server. I realy like the dashboard of the AWS.

I have use it for a while last year, but I quit because I was so busy at that time.

Register is very simple, what you need is a email address, phone number, address, and credit card information.

Go through all the process, then you can launch your instance.

Since I have used Ubuntu, I choosed it as my system.

There are couple of things you may need to pay attention:

1. How to connect to the server you have establised:

   In the instance management dashboard, right click the instance -> choose the first one: connect

   It will show the method to connect to the server.

   Generally, there is a private key file, you have to ssh connect to the server.

2. There is no default root password in the new system.

   You have to create one.

   Use commond $ sudo su

   Then you can go into root model

   Use commond # passwd root

   And input password and confirm, all good.

3. Install Apache

   Apache is the most common web server.

   $ sudo apt-get update
   $ sudo apt-get install apache2
   $ sudo systemctl apache2 start

1. Network Security Group

   You may can not access your website after configuring Apache webserver. This is because all instance controlled by the Network Security Group. When a instance created, for security reason, it only allows access through SSH.

   Thus, you have to go to instance dashboard,

   and go to left side bar -> Network & Security -> Security Groups.

   Create or Edit a Security rules by right clicking the Security group -> inbound rules

   add HTTP and HTTPS in the rules

   Apply this Security Group to your instance.

   And then you should be able to access your website with browser.