I am quite a noob when it comes to cloud based apps, this is a completely new context for me. I currently got the github education pack, part of it was an account on bitnami. I was wondering if it's possible to host a static html site on bitnami, I tried a few things but so far I got no where. I know that i can deploy a wordpress or drupal instance and then I can configure a theme for those, but I just want a simple static html site to run. Any guidance on how I can do that?
To host static website using Bitnami try following steps.
Run an AWS instance from marketplace using 'LAMP Stack powered by Bitnami' AMI. This AMI will have pre-configured LAMP stack.
Attach EIP to your Instance
Upload you website files to /var/www/html/
Type your EIP in browser and if everything went right you should be able to see your website.
Do you really want a static website on Bitnami or it could be in another platform?
Because you could host one on GitHub Pages. Just follow the guide.
To host a super fast static site using a bitnami provided image I would use an nginx based stack such as: https://wiki.bitnami.com/Infrastructure_Stacks/Bitnami_Nginx_Stack
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I'm new to all things Website building/customising, complete beginner learning on the go (literally YouTube and google are a very good friend of mine at them moment)
I have just finished migration from the Wamp localhost to Bitnami WordPress (AWS EC2) using the All-in-one Migration plugin, I am using the Electro (child) theme, however my carousel sections are not working with AWS version of the site, upon inspecting the elements of both the localhost and the AWS site it appears a "segment" is missing I have taken screenshot and highlighted the segment that doesn't appear on the AWS site,
If somebody on here could advise me on the best way to solve this I would be so grateful, as I am trying to google the answers but I haven't exactly found the answer (probably due to my website knowledge)
Thank you in advance
Ashley
Localhost site with the missing line
first of all I'm not sure how I can explain myself since I'm not native English speaker but please bear with me in the following scenario: I have a lot of customers where they need a simple blog website with their own domain name, instead of me registering on host service provider and deploying that blog website manually I'm looking for a better automated solution for example it would make a lot of sense if they use my own platform so after a successful registration/payment on my platform their website is deployed independently on private server instance (with their own specific config) ... Im not really looking for an answer on exactly how to implement that but what that process is called (the deployment part) or under what category should I dig to learn more. your advice is much appreciated.
There can be multiple approaches to solve the problem.
However, simple one will be using AWS SDK to create EC2 instances with Bitnami wordpress image.
You can trigger the API with parameters which will auto-install wordpress, configure dns and other stuff and provide the ready to use website within seconds.
I am a novice when it comes to deploying website. I have set up an EC2 instance and linked it to my domain. I proceeded to install Apache and I have obtained this result when I open my domain in browser.
implying I have done everything right until here.
Where do I go from here? I don't have prior linux experience one of the reasons for my situation. I need to deploy the cakephp project I have created.
I apologies for the rather broad question, it was only very recently that I learned to code.
Cakephp has a detailed documentation on how to install and configure cakephp.
https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/installation.html
I am currently trying to set up a Virtual Machine and a Database Server for my website to launch off of. I decided to go with Amazon's AWS.
I have beeing working through This Tutorial and am at Part 3 now.
I got to the point where I started the Apache Web Server and went to my local DNS name in my browser, and successfully saw the Test Page.
I proceeded forward with Downloading "Drupal" and got to the section where it says "Configure Drupal". I am now trying to load my local DNS name in my browser again, only to get a 500 Server Error.
I'm not sure what could've went wrong, I only entered the commands in the tutorial for the whole section on "Install Drupal".
Thank you
EDIT: Also, what exactly does Drupal do? And do I need to use it?
Drupal is a CMS system, and you don't have to use it. It is only being used to provide an example for a website. Instead of installing Drupal, you can install your own site on the server if you prefer or even something like Wordpress if you're more familiar with that.
However, if you do want to follow the example your best bet for discovering the problem is to look into what the exact error is. You should be able to find more information about that in the log files located in /var/log/httpd. The error log in there should show you more details about what failed.
I'm sorry for being dumb, but I am really stuck for few days. This is my first time using AWS. I have successfully installed LAMP web server under t1.micro on my customer's AWS account http://54.72.132.215/ following this tutorial . But I don't know what to do next after the installation. My goal is:
Setup a Domain
Run a Prestashop.
I hope you can guide me to the right path, I am totally lost. Thanks.
You need to register a domain with someone, this is outside of Amazon. Just google domain name registrars:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=domain%20name%20registrar
Then you'll need to point your domain to your Amazon EC2 instance. I would suggest using Route 53 to do this, another Amazon AWS service that makes it easier to setup and control your domains:
http://aws.amazon.com/route53/
Once you have that setup, visiting your name domain should show the default apache It works! page, if you've correctly setup your LAMP server. It'll look something like these:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=default+apache+web+page&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=yRfWU_v8OeHe7Abp1ICICw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1457&bih=881#imgdii=_
You'll want to add a new vhost for your new PrestaShop site, this will allow you to setup a specific set of files to serve for your new URL, and means you can add other sites to the server later on. Just a quick google shows multiple tutorials on doing this, here's one of them:
http://calebogden.com/multiple-websites-amazon-ec2-linux-virtual-hosts/
Then follow the tutorial in the PrestaShop documentation about installing PrestaShop via the command line:
http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Installing+PrestaShop+using+the+command-line+script
Now I'm guessing that all those steps in one go is a little overwhelming, so I would suggest you break this task down into chunks and work on them one at a time, and post a few different questions on StackOverflow and probably ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/, as that is better suited to setting up servers.
To summarise you need to:
register a domain name and point it to your EC2 server, you should see the default apache page
create a new vhost to server web pages for your new domain
follow the guide on PrestaShop about installing the software
Treat each of those a separate task. This question covers lots of topics in one very general idea, the full answer to your problem wouldn't really fit in a single post.
ServerFault will probably have a lot of your answers already, regarding setting up domains and vhosts at least.