---
title: Installing LAMP stack in EC2
tags: aws
---
Installing LAMP stack in EC2
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### Requirements:
- You should have installed an EC2 instance

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/gs-step-one-create-ec2-resources.html
- Installed AWS CLI on your local machine
- Must have a copy of access key (.pem)

### LAMP stack Installation

Follow the complete guide on the link below:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/install-LAMP.html

Stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP7

### Notes
- If you are trying to set up a LAMP web server on an Ubuntu or Red Hat Enterprise Linux instance, this tutorial will not work for you.
- Amazon Linux 2 guide installation doesn't work here. It has a different link here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-lamp-amazon-linux-2.html

### Install other necessary applications

- GIT version control

$ sudo yum install git
$ git --version

- NodeJS installation
https://tecadmin.net/install-latest-nodejs-amazon-linux/
*check for stable release*

- Composer
https://gist.github.com/asugai/6694502 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51394696/composer-require-dev-problems