Go to the AWS console and log in to your account.
Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard for your desired region. e.g. Sydney’s EC2 Dashboard
Select Launch Instance.
Select Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Choose an Instance Type. You will require t2.micro or greater, as the t2.nano does not have enough memory for PrestaShop and MySQL.
Next, Next, Next, Next
Ensure access via HTTP is available in security group.
Select Add Rule, and choose HTTP from the Type dropdown.
Review and Launch, Launch
ssh to your machine. Remember the default user for an Ubuntu machine is ubuntu. SSH instructions for the uninformed.
Everything from here on out is done from within the SSH session (except using your browser).
We will use this later, but you save a bit of time doing it first.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
Update your repository cache.
sudo apt update
Optionally but recommended, update your system. This will take a little while.
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install -y apache2
Enable the rewrite mod. PrestaShop requries this.
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Restart apache. Get used to this command. You will see it a lot.
sudo service apache2 restart
Navigate to your server from your browser. If you don’t get an error page then everything is working!
http://<server_ip>
sudo apt install -y mysql-server php5.6-mysql
During the installation you will be asked for a password. Provide a good password, not something like P4ssw0rd!.
Remove the example and insecure stuff that comes with the default installation.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
y/ny to everything else.Install all the required PHP modules that PrestaShop doesn’t tell you it needs.
sudo apt install -y php5.6 libapache2-mod-php5.6 php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-zip php5.6-xml php5.6-cli php5.6-curl php5.6-gd php5.6-intl
Edit the apache configuration to make php the first choice.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dir.conf
And edit line 2 to put index.php at the front of the list. Note, this is the only bit in this process that I haven’t scripted completely. If someone want to fork this post with a sed command or similar I will merge it in here.
Restart apache.
sudo service apache2 restart
Navigate to the apache server directory.
cd /var/www/html
Download the PrestaShop files.
sudo wget https://download.prestashop.com/download/releases/prestashop_1.7.0.6.zip
Install unzip and then unzip it.
sudo apt install -y unzip
sudo unzip prestashop_1.7.0.6.zip
sudo rm prestashop_1.7.0.6.zip
Fix the permissions.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www
Restart apache.
sudo service apache2 restart
Navigate to your server with your browser. This will set up all the PrestaShop files for you and redirect you to the installation page.
http://<server_ip>
You should be redirected to the installation screen. If not, navigate to the install screen with your browser.
http://<server_ip>/install
Follow the on screen prompts.
Once completed, clean up the install folder.
sudo rm -rf /var/www/html/install
Done!
I hope this is useful for someone out there.
This took me much longer to install than it should have. Now following this guide I can get a machine up and running in under 10 minutes.
If you want a scalable service, you can use an RDS instance for the database and point to that instead of the locally hosted one. The clone your EC2 instances as desired.
Or if you are lazy you can scale vertically.
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Cheers,
Michael