Web Server Setup on Amazon Linux 2

commands.txt

## Amazon Linux 2 ##

sudo yum update -y
sudo amazon-linux-extras install lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 nginx1.12

sudo yum install -y mariadb-server
sudo systemctl enable php-fpm
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl enable mariadb

sudo yum install -y php-xml php-pdo php-mbstring

sudo mkdir /var/www/

sudo usermod -a -G apache ec2-user
sudo usermod -a -G apache nginx
sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /var/www
sudo chmod 2775 /var/www && find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} \;
sudo find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} \;

nano /var/www/index.php

----- nginx config -----
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
== > change root  to /var/www
location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

sudo nano /etc/nginx/default.d/php.conf
==> Disable "intercept errors" feature

location ~ \.php$ {   
    fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
}


--- Enable Services (or reboot) ---
sudo systemctl start php-fpm
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl start mariadb

---- Secure the DB ------
sudo mysql_secure_installation

----- SSL/TLS Certificate -----

sudo su
curl https://get.acme.sh | sh

acme.sh --issue -d example.com -w /var/www

server {
  listen 443 ssl default_server;
  ssl_certificate     /root/.acme.sh/example.cer;
  ssl_certificate_key /root/.acme.sh/example.key;
}


----- PHP Composer -----
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

----- Cloning from existing repo -----
sudo yum intall git
composer install


----- Laravel -----
cd /var/www/
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel test

mkdir /var/www/test/storage/cache
sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /var/www/test/storage/cache

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf  ===> change root
sudo systemctl reload nginx

php artisan make:auth

mysql -uroot
create database test2;
nano .env
php artisan migrate


# New pages
nano routes/web.php

----- Anti-Virus -------
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install clamav freshclam clamav-update rkhunter
sudo clamscan -i -r --bell
sudo rkhunter -c

Hey @williamsdb -- These instructions are from 18 months ago so I wouldn't be surprised if they need tweaking (although they did work at the time). I've since switched to using Docker and Trend Micro Cloud One (it adds like a penny per hour to the instance cost). It took a big time investment up front to switch but it has paid for itself many times over, especially as our team grew. Good luck!

Trend Micro Cloud sounds interesting so I’ll take a look at that, thanks!