AWS LIGHTSAIL DEPLOYMENT

After creating the instance, you can start directly with Lightsail's terminal or use Lightsail's terminal access from your local machine.

1.1 Lightsail's Terminal Access From Local Machine Terminal

To open your Lightsail instance, follow these steps:

1. Download the SSH key from Lightsail.
2. Open your terminal and paste the following command to move the key file to the .ssh folder:

   cp ~/Downloads/private_key.pem ~/.ssh/

3. Paste the following command to edit the SSH configuration file:

   sudo nano ~/.ssh/config

4. Add the following lines to your config file:

   Host lightsail-instance
       HostName your_ipv4_address
       User bitnami
       IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key.pem
   

That's it! Now you can access the Lightsail terminal from your PC's terminal by entering the command:

ssh lightsail-instance

1.2 Nginx Installation

First, update the package list and upgrade installed packages:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Run the following commands to install and start Nginx:

sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl enable nginx

If Nginx doesn't start due to port issues, edit the default configuration file to change the port from 80 to 8080:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

1.3 Database Installation

In this case, we are using PostgreSQL. Follow these steps to install it:

1. Run the following command to install PostgreSQL:

   sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib -y

2. Start and enable PostgreSQL:

   sudo systemctl start postgresql
   sudo systemctl enable postgresql