Using Amazon Web Services

Logged into aws.amazon.com with my Amazon account, which I then used to create an AWS account.

Created an EC2 instance. I choose Ubuntu 14.04.

During the process, I had to create a key pair name. AWS created a private key, which I downloaded. It was a .pem file.

I moved the .pem file to another directory on my local Linux machine at home. From within this directory, I used ssh to connect to my EC2 account, using the command line instructions provided by AWS's web interface.

It's a fairly clean or empty Linux machine, as with my Digital Ocean Droplet account.

I chose to install Nginx first.

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/21154/14May2015/Installing-nodejs-nginx-mysql-junco-and-ghost-on-Digital-Ocean-Droplet#Installing-Nginx

http://jothut.com/cgi-bin/junco.pl/blogpost/71676/05Jul2016/Installing-thttpd-and-tor-to-create-a-onion-website

http://voidcanvas.com/setup-and-configure-nginx-in-aws-ec2-linuxubuntu-instance/

this starts in the home directory, which is /home/ubuntu

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install nginx
• sudo service nginx start
• sudo mkdir www
• cd www
• sudo mkdir mysite
• cd mysite
• sudo vim index.html
  • added test content to index.html
• cd
• sudo chmod -R 755 www
• cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
• ls
• sudo cp default mysite