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Hello Steemit friends, for few years Amazon are giving out 1 year cloud hosting for free for anyone who own a credit card, their cloud hosting are called AWS EC2, so I just get my hand on their cloud hosting and see how difficult it is to set it up

这几年Amazon都给任何人免费一年的云服务，只要你有信用卡绑上去，就可以用了，他们的云服务叫AWS EC２，反正我也需要用到服务器就尝试好了

So below is the step I took just to host a website using AWS EC2
以下就是我setup的步骤

1. Choose region 

2. Under services -> Go EC2 Dashboard -> Launch Instance -> Choose Ubuntu
-> Choose 1 GB - > Launch

3. Create a new key pair -> AWS.pem (on the download folder)

4. Back to EC2 Dashboard-> Security Groups -> Edit inbound rules, add HTTP port 80
-> set SSH to allow source from anywhere, HTTP also allow source from anywhere

5. EC2 Dashboard -> Elastic IP
-> create new Elastic IP
-> associate IP to your Instance

6. Right click your instant click connect to get the SSH command, open your terminal and SSH into it

7. Inside the terminal, type
sudo apt-get update (to update the software)

8. download XAMPP
wget https://www.apachefriends.org/xampp-files/7.2.3/xampp-linux-x64-7.2.3-0-installer.run

9. Make execute installation
sudo chmod +x xampp-linux-x64-7.2.3-0-installer.run

10. Run installation
sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-7.2.3-0-installer.run

11. Run XAMPP
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

12. Your file are now inside
/opt/lampp/htdocs

13. open web browser and access the website via IP

14. Edit XAMPP configurations
sudo vi /opt/lampp/etc/extra/httpd-xampp.conf

15. Reboot the server
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart

16. Set the security
sudo /opt/lampp/xampp security

17. Download filezilla
-> add key to SFTP
-> connect using the instance public DNS
-> sudo chown -R ubuntu /opt/lampp/htdocs

So far I have installed PHP, mysql, Apache and can access the server via SSH and FTP, can open the website. But I haven setup the email server, domain name and more...

thanks for reading

目前为止上了apache，php，mysql，可以用ssh和ftp连线，也可以打开网站了，还缺少email，domain和其他

谢谢阅读