Start A Website

Start A Website#

1. Have a plan on the website#

Have a plan on the website. Here I just need a practice for website deplyment, some the resources required is small. Following is what I have done.

  • Bought a domain name on namecheap.com.

  • Apply a free tier on amazon and got a EC2 computing resource, got a server and a public IP.

  • Configured namecheap.com, let the domain name point to the IP of the serser.

  • Employ Nginx as http server utility.

  • Using Certbot to certificate my domain, started https schame.

  • Configure Nginx.

2. Register a domaini name#

  • Visit https://www.namecheap.com, and sign up.

  • Click the Domain tab, search the domain name that I want to register.

  • I search a domain name, let say “example.com”, the serach result shown that the domain name is not register.

    So, I bought it. The cost is about $12 per year.

  • Got to the Doshboard of my account (https://ap.www.namecheap.com), I can saw that I have acquired the domain name successfully.

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3. Apply EC2 free Tier#

  • Visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/, and apply EC2 free tier. You may need a credit card here.

  • Follwing the directions of the website, to apply EC2 free tier.

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  • Start a EC2 instance, and got a IP. Let say the IP address is 1.2.3.4

Note

When start the EC2 instance, I choose Fedora as my OS image.

Note

When start EC2 the instance, I generate I key for login. The name of private key file is “amazon-ec2-key.pem” I well login to the EC2 instance by bash command: ssh -i “amazon-ec2-key.pem” fedora@1.2.3.4

4. Make domain name point to IP on namecheap.com#

  • Go to https://ap.www.namecheap.com/, click “MANGE” along the domain name that I want to configure.

  • I added two record, please see the image.

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5. Install Nginx and configure the server#

  • Log in the EC2 server using ssh remotely.

ssh -i "amazon-ec2-key.pem" fedora@1.2.3.4

  • Create root password

sudo passwd root

  • Install Nginx

dnf install nginx.x86_64

  • Add http and https services

firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
systemctl reload firewalld.service

  • Enable and start Nginx

systemctl enable nginx
systemctl start nginx

6. Using certbot to certificate the domain#

  • Install certbot and its Nginx plugin

dnf install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

  • Cerficate

certbot --nginx

Now Every should works.

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