Kodecloud Day 26: Configuring an EC2 Instance as a Web Server with Nginx

Requirement is to configure an EC2 instance which automatically install and start the Nginx server.

Steps:

Step 1 : Create a Security group

Inbound rules : HTTP port 80–0.0.0.0/0

ssh port 22–0.0.0.0/0

Step 2 :

Configure an Ec2 instance with a provided name.

Choose ubuntu AMI ,

t2/t3 micro ,

attach the created security group.

Now click advanced settings -> scroll down to the bottom.

USER Data : (Paste the below mentioned script)

!/bin/bash

apt update -y apt install nginx -y systemctl start nginx systemctl enable nginx

The above script says that it should Install and start the nginx server when we launch the ec2 instance.

CLICK LAUNCH INSTANCE .

Now put this is the browser http:// public ip address