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Ryan Erb
Ryan Erb

Reputation: 838

How to host a PHP file with AWS?

After many hours of reading documentation and messing around with Amazon Web Services. I am unable to figure out how to host a PHP page.

Currently I am using the S3 service for a basic website, but I know that this service does not support dynamic pages. I was able to use the Elastic Beanstalk to make the Sample Application running PHP. But i have really no idea how to use it. I read up on some other services but they don't seem to do what I want or they are just way to confusing.

So what I want to be able to do is host a website with amazon that has dynamic PHP pages. Is this possible and what services do you use?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 14825

Answers (3)

Thomas Decaux
Thomas Decaux

Reputation: 22651

Your Php must run on EC2 machines.

Amazon provides great tools to make life easy (Beanstalk, ECS for Docker ...) but at the end, you own EC2 machines.

There is no a such thing where you can put your Php code without worrying about anything else ;-(

Upvotes: 3

azazqadir
azazqadir

Reputation: 61

If you are having problems hosting PHP sites on AWS then you can go with a service provider like Cloudways. They provide managed AWS servers with one click installs of PHP frameworks and CMS.

Upvotes: 0

chris
chris

Reputation: 37440

For a PHP app, you really have two choices in AWS.

Elastic Beanstalk is a service that takes your code, and manages the runtime environment for you - once you've set it up, it's very easy to deploy, and you don't have to worry about managing servers - AWS does pretty much everything for you. You have less control over the environment, but if your server will run in EB then this is a pretty easy path.

EC2 is closer to conventional hosting. You need to decide how your servers are configured & deployed (what packages get installed, what version of linux, instance size, etc), your system architecture (do you have separate instances for cache or database, whether or not you need a load balancer, etc) and how you manage availability and scalability (multiple zones, multiple data centers, auto scaling rules, etc).

Now, those are all things that you can use - you dont have to. If you're just trying to learn about php in AWS, you can start with a single EC2 instance, deploy your code, and get it running in a few minutes without worring about any of the stuff in the previous paragraph. Just create an instance from the Amazon Linux AMI, install apache & php, open the appropriate ports in the firewall (AKA the EC2 security group), deploy your code, and you should be up & running.

Upvotes: 8

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