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    Launch the instance and connect with ssh.
##Update the server
sudo yum update

##Install php and MySQL packages
sudo yum install https mod_ssl mysql mysql-server php php-mysql php-xml

##Install phpMyAdmin
Get the RPMforge repo (32-bit, for 64-bit use http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm)
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Install
sudo yum install phpmyadmin

##Start MySQL service
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d/
sudo ./mysqld start
sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation //follow instructions

##Setup startup scripts for apache and MySQL
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
sudo rm K15httpd
sudo rm K36mysqld
sudo ln -s ../init.d/mysqld S30mysql
sudo ln -s ../init.d/httpd S85httpd

##Setup phpMyAdmin
Allow access from external IP's
sudo chmod 0700 /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

#  Web application to manage MySQL
#  #
#  Order Deny,Allow
#  Deny from all
  Allow from 127.0.0.1
#
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /mysqladmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

Set blowfish_secret to make it work with cookie auth
sudo chmod 0700 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
sudo nano /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php 

...
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'put-a-magic-string-here'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
...

sudo chmod 0755 /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

##Make mod_rewrite (.htaccess) work in subdirectories
cd /etc/httpd/conf
sudo nano httpd.conf

Find <Directory "/var/www/html">
Replace AllowOverride none with AllowOverride all
(optional if apache is running already, restart it)
sudo service httpd restart

##Start apache
sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

##Install FTP Server
sudo yum install vsftpd

edit configurations file:
sudo vi /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

find anonymous_enable settings and edit it to 'NO'
anonymous_enable=NO

###passive connection
for passive connection, add these lines at the end of the file, insert your server's ip in pasv_address:
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=12000
pasv_max_port=12100
pasv_address=<Public IP of your instance> 

or, if you don't have a fixed ip/ you want to use your domain, add these lines instead and insert your full domain name in pasv_address:
pasv_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=12000
pasv_max_port=12100
pasv_address=<Domain Name of your instance>
pasv_addr_resolve=YES

Don't Forget to open port 21 and port range 12000-12100 in your firewall
if you want to specify users unrelated to your dist users, or you want to limit you user's folder access, please visit  Setting up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server
##Sources

Build an Amazon EC2 LAMP Server
Create LAMP (PHP, MySQL, Apache2) On CentOS in Amazon AMI
Setting up FTP on Amazon Cloud Server