AWS EC2 Website Hosting Assignment

Project Overview

This project demonstrates how to deploy a simple HTML website on an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance using the Nginx web server.

The website contains my basic details such as Name, College, Branch, Email, and Date.

Technologies Used

• AWS EC2
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Nginx
• Linux
• HTML

Steps Performed

1. Launched an EC2 Instance

• Selected Ubuntu 24.04 AMI
• Created a new key pair (.pem)
• Configured Security Group
• Allowed SSH (Port 22)
• Allowed HTTP (Port 80)

EC2_Dashboard

2. Connected to EC2

Connected securely using SSH from Windows PowerShell.

SSH_login

3. Updated the Server

sudo apt update

4. Installed Nginx

sudo apt install nginx -y

5. Hosted the Website

• Created the HTML file
• Stored it inside:

/var/www/html/

###Verified the website using the EC2 Public IP.

Linux Commands Used

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo systemctl status nginx
sudo systemctl restart nginx
df -h
free -h
ps aux

Project Architecture

Browser │ HTTP Request │ AWS EC2 (Ubuntu 24.04) │ Nginx │ index.html

Challenges Faced

• Initially, SSH connection timed out.
• Identified that the issue was related to the Security Group inbound rule.
• Updated the SSH rule and successfully connected to the EC2 instance.

Learning Outcomes

• Launching and configuring an EC2 instance.
• Connecting to EC2 using SSH.
• Installing and managing Nginx.
• Hosting a static website on AWS.
• Basic Linux server administration.
• Troubleshooting Security Group issues.

Author

Amrit Raj

Galgotias University

Electronics & Communication Engineering (AIML)