Setup Apache Web Server on AWS EC2 – Step by Step

With an Apache web server and an EC2 instance, hosting a website on AWS is simple. This tutorial will show you how to install Apache, run an EC2 instance, and host a simple webpage step-by-step.

Step 1: Launch an EC2 instance

• Go to AWS management console and click on EC2 Instances
• First you have to select region where you want to deploy your application like us-east-1
• Click Launch Instance
• Name and Tag : XXXXXXXXX
• AMI: Amazon Linux 2
• Instance Type: t2.micro [ Free Tier eligible ]
• Create Keypair
• Network Setting: Leave as Default
• Make sure enable public IP
• Firewall security groups: Check SSH port 22 , HTTP port 80 and HTTPS port 443
• Storage: 20 gp2
• Click Launch Instances

Step 2: Connect to your EC2 Instance

• Copy the Public IP of your EC2 Instance
• Open your Terminal or command Prompt and connect via SSH

      ssh -i your-key.pem ec2-user@your-instance-public-ip

Note: If you are using ubuntu server then use ubuntu@your-instance-public-ip instead of ec2-user

Step 3: Install Apache webserver

1. First of all update your system

• For Amazon Linux [Httpd]

 sudo yum update -y

• For Ubuntu Linux [ Apache2]

 sudo apt-get update -y 

2. Install Apache webserver

• For Amazon Linux

 sudo yum install -y httpd

• For Ubuntu Linux

 sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

3. Start Apache service and enable it

• For Amazon Linux

sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable httpd

• For Ubuntu Linux

sudo systemctl start apache2
sudo systemctl enable apache2

Step 4: Verify default Apache webserver

• After install the Apache webserver
• Copy the public IP of EC2 instance and paste it in browser

Finally, you have successfully deploy Apache webserver on AWS EC2 instance . Now, you can host your website or web application easily and quickly.